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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun






2. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany






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






4. 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






5. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






6. A verb tense discussing the past in the past






7. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements






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






9. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






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






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






12. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.






13. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future






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






15. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions






16. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration






17. A sad or mournful poem






18. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






19. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa






20. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.






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






22. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)






23. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring






24. Wrote 'Wild Nights -- Wild Nights!;' 'I Heard A Fly Buzz When I Died -' and 'Because I Could Not Stop For Death --;' 19th century poet; major themes: flowers/gardens - the master poems - morbidity - gospel poems - the undiscovered continent; irregula






25. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets






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






27. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought






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






29. A sentence that requests or commands






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






31. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






32. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words






33. 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






34. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






35. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






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






37. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching






38. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it






39. 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'






40. Extreme exaggeration






41. 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






42. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels






43. 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






44. 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






45. 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






46. verb that can be used as an adjective






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






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






49. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






50. Two consecutive rhyming lines






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