SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis 2 English Literature
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
Ray Bradbury
fable
couplet
interrogative sentence
2. Tell how things are alike and different
Herman Melville
Alice Walker
novel
compare and contrast
3. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Ray Bradbury
George Herbert
voice
pronoun
4. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
Andrew Marvell
collective noun
Willa Cather
prepositional phrase
5. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Alliteration
Activating Prior Knowledge
novel
Jane Austen
6. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
Emily Dickinson
compound complex sentence
Mark Twain
7. United States poet famous for his lyrical poems on country life in New England (1874-1963); 'The Road Not Taken' 'Fire and Ice' 'Nothing Gold Can Stay'
synecdoche
Jane Austen
fairy tale
Robert Frost
8. Extreme exaggeration
Harper Lee
independent clause
Analogy
hyperbole
9. American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil - disobedience when he refused to pay the toll - tax to support him Mexican War; wrote 'Walden'
synecdoche
C. S. Lewis
Henry David Thoreau
Participle
10. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
William Shakespeare
Scaffolding
John Keats
11. Expresses action or state of being
verb
present tense verb
appeal to emotion
fable
12. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
Metaphysical poets
pronoun
compare and contrast
Henry David Thoreau
13. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Ray Bradbury
Participle
legend
chronological sequence
14. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
pie chart
future perfect verb
adverb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
15. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
fable
past perfect verb
present tense verb
sentence fragment
16. 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.
mystery
haiku
Herman Melville
appeal to authority
17. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
present perfect verb
Imagery
Alice Walker
18. American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self - reliance - optimism - self - improvement - self - confidence - and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement; Wrote 'Self - Reliance'
personification
pronoun
preposition
Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Anne Frank
historical fiction
Langston Hughes
Dialect
20. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Countee Cullen
compound sentence
bar graph
Foreshadowing
21. A sentence that requests or commands
Characterization
novel
imperative sentence
Andrew Marvell
22. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
hyperbole
paradox
independent clause
complex sentence
23. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity
Zora Neale Hurston
bar graph
mystery
metaphor
24. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
Zora Neale Hurston
Countee Cullen
Foreshadowing
common noun
25. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
dependent clause
historical fiction
Characterization
proper noun
26. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
personification
Metaphysical poets
Edgar Allan Poe
Amy Tan
27. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
past tense verb
folk tale
Foreshadowing
proper noun
28. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
hyperbole
Irony
appositive
Imagery
29. 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
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Countee Cullen
Activating Prior Knowledge
participial
30. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
adjective
appeal to authority
independent clause
conjunction
31. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
common noun
Diction
folk tale
cause and effect
32. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
novel
Maya Angelou
appositive
spatial sequence
33. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
preposition
extended metaphor
present tense verb
conjunction
34. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
synecdoche
Participle
expository
apostrophe
35. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Transcendentalism
bar graph
mood
Cliche
36. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Jane Austen
apostrophe
John Donne
persuasive
37. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
declarative sentence
adjective
J. D. Salinger
John Donne
38. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
appositive
mystery
adjective
Walt Whitman
39. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
J. D. Salinger
past tense verb
exclamatory sentence
chronological sequence
40. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
metaphor
Mary Shelley
pronoun
Stephen Crane
41. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
preposition
synecdoche
haiku
42. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
prepositional phrase
preposition
spatial sequence
Willa Cather
43. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
tone
setting
compound complex sentence
44. American gothic writer known especially for his macabre poems - such as 'The Raven' (1845) - and short stories - including 'The Fall of the House of Usher' (1839).
setting
Edgar Allan Poe
novel
F. Scott Fitzgerald
45. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
complex sentence
appositive
mystery
Emily Dickinson
46. A sentence that asks a question
Walt Whitman
sonnet
future perfect verb
interrogative sentence
47. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
folk tale
Anne Frank
pie chart
compare and contrast
48. 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
collective noun
adverb
John Keats
homophone
49. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
fairy tale
persuasive
mystery
historical fiction
50. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
mood
Transcendentalism
present tense verb
Langston Hughes