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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. An English writer - poet - philologist - and university professor - best known as the author of the classic high fantasy works The Hobbit - The Lord of the Rings - and The Silmarillion
Henry David Thoreau
appeal to emotion
J.R.R. Tolkein
personification
2. Tell how things are alike and different
compare and contrast
preposition
Subject Verb Agreement
expository
3. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
short story
Mark Twain
Countee Cullen
Robert Frost
4. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
declarative sentence
Walt Whitman
adverb
chronological sequence
5. Wrote Red Badge of Courage; American novelist - short story writer - poet - journalist - raised in NY and NJ; style and technique: naturalism - realism - impressionism; themes: ideals v. realities - spiritual crisis - fears
appeal to emotion
Stephen Crane
sonnet
exclamatory sentence
6. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
Dialect
John Donne
declarative sentence
Anne Frank
7. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
preposition
imperative sentence
appeal to emotion
sentence fragment
8. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
myth
haiku
infinitive
past perfect verb
9. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Harper Lee
Alice Walker
Amy Tan
Anne Frank
10. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
spatial sequence
Herman Melville
John Keats
symbolism
11. Was an Irish - born British[1] novelist - academic - medievalist - literary critic - essayist - lay theologian and Christian apologist. He is also known for his fiction - especially The Screwtape Letters - The Chronicles of Narnia and The Space Trilo
cause and effect
C. S. Lewis
homophone
John Donne
12. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
simple sentence
mystery
appositive
active verb
13. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
synecdoche
personification
George Orwell
myth
14. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
complex sentence
Stephen Crane
John Keats
Modeling
15. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
haiku
Mary Shelley
fable
creative
16. 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'
novel
interrogative sentence
Amy Tan
Henry David Thoreau
17. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
William Shakespeare
collective noun
appositive
18. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
proper noun
appeal to authority
line graph
George Orwell
19. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
metaphor
appeal to emotion
legend
20. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
adjective
novel
Edgar Allan Poe
Harper Lee
21. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
verb
Andrew Marvell
personification
sentence fragment
22. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
mood
allegory
extended metaphor
past perfect verb
23. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
Harper Lee
Stephen Crane
past perfect verb
24. A philosophy pioneered by Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 1830's and 1840's - in which each person has direct communication with God and Nature - and there is no need for organized churches. It incorporated the ideas that mind goes beyond matter - intuiti
Building Metacognition
Maya Angelou
Transcendentalism
couplet
25. Expresses action or state of being
verb
declarative sentence
novel
past perfect verb
26. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
J. D. Salinger
dependent clause
Metaphysical poets
27. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
independent clause
tone
past perfect verb
fairy tale
28. 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
science fiction
future perfect verb
John Keats
Amy Tan
29. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
synecdoche
Foreshadowing
symbolism
interrogative sentence
30. 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
declarative sentence
C. S. Lewis
Walt Whitman
extended metaphor
31. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Percy Bysshe Shelley
setting
Jane Austen
Foreshadowing
32. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
myth
Characterization
spatial sequence
33. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Allusion
John Keats
appositive
34. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
declarative sentence
Anne Frank
fable
Analogy
35. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
passive verb
Amy Tan
harlem renaissance
synecdoche
36. helping students to achieve independence in reading by first giving support and then gradually taking it away as students are ready to do the tasks on their own
Scaffolding
Dialect
Diction
apostrophe
37. One of the British Romantics expelled from school for advocating atheism and set out to reform the world. Prometheus Unbound (1820) was a portrait of the revolt of human beings against the laws and customs that oppressed them.
interrogative sentence
metonymy
infinitive
Percy Bysshe Shelley
38. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Langston Hughes
persuasive
Scaffolding
John Keats
39. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
F. Scott Fitzgerald
allegory
passive verb
John Keats
40. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
participial
Modeling
simple sentence
apostrophe
41. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
conjunction
legend
sentence fragment
harlem renaissance
42. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
legend
Irony
short story
Participle
43. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Amy Tan
Imagery
mystery
Maya Angelou
44. A phrase beginning with a preposition
voice
Mary Shelley
Ralph Waldo Emerson
prepositional phrase
45. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
mystery
legend
Transcendentalism
Jane Austen
46. A kind of humorous verse of five lines - in which the first - second - and fifth lines rhyme with each other - and the third and fourth lines - which are shorter - form a rhymed couplet
Harper Lee
limerick
Jane Austen
Foreshadowing
47. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
symbol
Willa Cather
Building Metacognition
48. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
metaphor
voice
present perfect verb
mood
49. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
Dialect
John Keats
apostrophe
noun
50. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
sonnet
Alice Walker
Imagery