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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Modeling
creative
simple sentence
Mary Shelley
2. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
passive verb
British Romantics
sonnet
voice
3. Original and imaginative
creative
F. Scott Fitzgerald
limerick
common noun
4. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
myth
limerick
Imagery
Questioning
5. Originated in late 18th century when poets wrote about nature and beauty - They contrasted the beauty of naure to the harsh reality of the world and cities after the Industrial Revolution - William Wordsworth - William Blake - Percy Bysshe Shelly - J
British Romantics
spatial sequence
Langston Hughes
chronological sequence
6. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
pronoun
compound complex sentence
Alliteration
Scaffolding
7. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
noun
symbol
Stephen Crane
myth
8. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
preposition
conjunction
Alice Walker
dependent clause
9. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
synecdoche
Anne Frank
Allusion
extended metaphor
10. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Activating Prior Knowledge
Alliteration
complex sentence
11. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Zora Neale Hurston
symbolism
proper noun
Willa Cather
12. A major form of Japanese verse - written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5 - 7 - and 5 syllables - and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons - often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
Scaffolding
Diction
haiku
Cliche
13. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
C. S. Lewis
Herman Melville
Amy Tan
Harper Lee
14. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
collective noun
past perfect verb
setting
noun
15. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
collective noun
Walt Whitman
novel
Cliche
16. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
fairy tale
interrogative sentence
haiku
17. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Transcendentalism
compound complex sentence
Ray Bradbury
Participle
18. A phrase beginning with a preposition
fable
prepositional phrase
cause and effect
complex sentence
19. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
British Romantics
conjunction
pronoun
20. A sentence that requests or commands
compound sentence
prepositional phrase
Cliche
imperative sentence
21. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
historical fiction
George Orwell
Building Metacognition
Walt Whitman
22. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
future perfect verb
mystery
symbol
George Orwell
23. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
prepositional phrase
Diction
symbolism
Andrew Marvell
24. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
verb
mood
F. Scott Fitzgerald
passive verb
25. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
Countee Cullen
fairy tale
J. D. Salinger
Scaffolding
26. Tell how things are alike and different
imperative sentence
Emily Dickinson
couplet
compare and contrast
27. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
homophone
imperative sentence
Mark Twain
28. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
short story
Modeling
verb
dependent clause
29. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
elegy
sentence fragment
Henry David Thoreau
present tense verb
30. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
fairy tale
Simile
Alice Walker
J.R.R. Tolkein
31. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Characterization
complex sentence
noun
compound complex sentence
32. A worn - out idea or overused expression
free verse
Dialect
Cliche
past tense verb
33. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
free verse
Willa Cather
present perfect verb
Subject Verb Agreement
34. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
chronological sequence
interrogative sentence
Epic
symbol
35. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
elegy
Scaffolding
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Allusion
36. Extreme exaggeration
F. Scott Fitzgerald
hyperbole
passive verb
symbol
37. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Andrew Marvell
Ray Bradbury
personification
Analogy
38. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
Walt Whitman
spatial sequence
hyperbole
Jane Austen
39. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
collective noun
haiku
setting
allegory
40. Wrote 'On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer -' 'To Autumn -' and 'Bright Star - Would I Were Stedfast As Thou Art;' English poet in Romantic movement during early 19th century; motifs include departures and reveries - the five sense and art - and th
John Donne
Edgar Allan Poe
John Keats
Subject Verb Agreement
41. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Building Metacognition
couplet
John Keats
Maya Angelou
42. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
adjective
Diction
William Shakespeare
harlem renaissance
43. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
historical fiction
limerick
past tense verb
declarative sentence
44. A word that takes the place of a noun
pronoun
Alice Walker
metaphor
George Herbert
45. A following of one thing after another in time
C. S. Lewis
chronological sequence
spatial sequence
Jane Austen
46. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Characterization
Metaphysical poets
persuasive
couplet
47. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
John Donne
personification
passive verb
fable
48. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
symbol
infinitive
collective noun
expository
49. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
Anne Frank
compound sentence
paradox
harlem renaissance
50. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
symbolism
J. D. Salinger
Cliche
Questioning