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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. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
conjunction
noun
Scaffolding
Activating Prior Knowledge
2. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
present tense verb
Maya Angelou
past tense verb
declarative sentence
3. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
Percy Bysshe Shelley
George Herbert
George Orwell
mood
4. A sad or mournful poem
fairy tale
imperative sentence
elegy
cause and effect
5. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Willa Cather
complex sentence
bar graph
6. Original and imaginative
Modeling
Harper Lee
creative
short story
7. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Anne Frank
symbolism
metonymy
compare and contrast
8. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Foreshadowing
Irony
folk tale
Countee Cullen
9. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
John Keats
Alliteration
British Romantics
proper noun
10. 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
mood
British Romantics
symbolism
11. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
collective noun
sentence fragment
Ray Bradbury
active verb
12. 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
preposition
line graph
appeal to emotion
Building Metacognition
13. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
infinitive
interrogative sentence
past tense verb
William Shakespeare
14. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Harper Lee
Henry David Thoreau
Modeling
Andrew Marvell
15. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
compound complex sentence
couplet
expository
symbol
16. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
mystery
elegy
William Shakespeare
17. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
Amy Tan
Zora Neale Hurston
Analogy
Percy Bysshe Shelley
18. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Walt Whitman
bar graph
Anne Frank
John Keats
19. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
limerick
Henry David Thoreau
present tense verb
20. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
complex sentence
William Shakespeare
Irony
metonymy
21. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
limerick
F. Scott Fitzgerald
point of view
collective noun
22. 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
free verse
prepositional phrase
active verb
Scaffolding
23. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
present tense verb
Characterization
tone
Metaphysical poets
24. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
adverb
Zora Neale Hurston
science fiction
Henry David Thoreau
25. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
collective noun
couplet
future perfect verb
haiku
26. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
pronoun
noun
C. S. Lewis
27. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
fairy tale
style
Mary Shelley
synecdoche
28. 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
Emily Dickinson
elegy
exclamatory sentence
line graph
29. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
future perfect verb
C. S. Lewis
allegory
appositive
30. 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'
Robert Frost
interrogative sentence
John Donne
independent clause
31. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Imagery
Percy Bysshe Shelley
present perfect verb
mood
32. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Countee Cullen
Transcendentalism
short story
J.R.R. Tolkein
33. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
fable
conjunction
John Donne
hyperbole
34. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
pie chart
George Orwell
compound complex sentence
Edgar Allan Poe
35. 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
Alice Walker
dependent clause
Mary Shelley
compare and contrast
36. 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
verb
participial
chronological sequence
37. Two consecutive rhyming lines
couplet
complex sentence
Amy Tan
Robert Frost
38. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
infinitive
Diction
harlem renaissance
Questioning
39. A sentence that asks a question
sonnet
metonymy
infinitive
interrogative sentence
40. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
voice
symbolism
personification
Zora Neale Hurston
41. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
elegy
Scaffolding
simple sentence
42. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Transcendentalism
voice
Antecedent
line graph
43. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Harper Lee
Epic
Henry David Thoreau
adjective
44. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
legend
Imagery
Diction
compound sentence
45. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
participial
J.R.R. Tolkein
George Herbert
46. general name for a person - place - thing - or idea
complex sentence
elegy
common noun
conjunction
47. 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
limerick
Epic
Willa Cather
symbol
48. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
adjective
Alliteration
Diction
Metaphysical poets
49. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
pronoun
Allusion
future perfect verb
synecdoche
50. 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
synecdoche
appositive
Herman Melville
C. S. Lewis