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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






2. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author






3. 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.






4. A form of a verb that generally appears with the word 'to' and acts as a noun - adjective - or adverb; the uninflected form of the verb






5. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities






6. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






7. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)






8. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect






9. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration






10. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part






11. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction






12. A verb tense discussing the past in the past






13. A sentence that requests or commands






14. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation






15. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action






16. A verb that tells that something is happening now.






17. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning






18. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole






19. 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






20. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action






21. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet






22. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art






23. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)






24. 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.






25. Word used to show the relationship of a noun or pronoun to some other word in the sentence. Examples: in - under - near - behind - to - from - over






26. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds






27. A clause in a complex sentence that cannot stand alone as a complete sentence and that functions within the sentence as a noun or adjective or adverb






28. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb






29. 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






30. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people






31. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions






32. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'






33. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another






34. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.






35. Two consecutive rhyming lines






36. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






37. 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






38. 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






39. Original and imaginative






40. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'






41. A writer's or speaker's choice of words






42. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.






43. A word that joins two phrases or sentences






44. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'






45. 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






46. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)






47. 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).






48. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief






49. 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






50. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition