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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
pie chart
George Orwell
style
Countee Cullen
2. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Antecedent
J.R.R. Tolkein
metaphor
Allusion
3. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
Mark Twain
bar graph
future perfect verb
expository
4. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Alliteration
participial
historical fiction
Foreshadowing
5. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
fable
historical fiction
synecdoche
dependent clause
6. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
expository
compound sentence
spatial sequence
verb
7. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
British Romantics
declarative sentence
short story
Imagery
8. 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
Diction
Scaffolding
Alice Walker
Transcendentalism
9. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Dialect
past perfect verb
Ralph Waldo Emerson
10. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
collective noun
fable
persuasive
Percy Bysshe Shelley
11. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Alice Walker
legend
Participle
myth
12. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
apostrophe
Dialect
Antecedent
mood
13. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
conjunction
creative
point of view
14. 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
dependent clause
novel
Jane Austen
preposition
15. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
George Herbert
Irony
symbolism
Modeling
16. 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
tone
legend
creative
17. Expresses action or state of being
John Donne
interrogative sentence
J. D. Salinger
verb
18. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
George Orwell
Foreshadowing
Alice Walker
William Shakespeare
19. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
expository
future perfect verb
proper noun
common noun
20. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
compare and contrast
adjective
Diction
Amy Tan
21. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
Building Metacognition
infinitive
historical fiction
Alliteration
22. 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
Emily Dickinson
collective noun
John Keats
Analogy
23. Was an English poet and playwright - widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre - eminent dramatist; major works include 'Romeo and Juliet' 'Othello' 'Macbeth' and 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
folk tale
hyperbole
expository
William Shakespeare
24. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
future perfect verb
Allusion
declarative sentence
cause and effect
25. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
myth
Emily Dickinson
common noun
adverb
26. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
extended metaphor
exclamatory sentence
Walt Whitman
Diction
27. 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'
Jane Austen
Robert Frost
past perfect verb
future perfect verb
28. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
interrogative sentence
John Donne
collective noun
simple sentence
29. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
symbol
future perfect verb
simple sentence
extended metaphor
30. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
sentence fragment
setting
William Shakespeare
31. 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'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
appeal to authority
Ralph Waldo Emerson
bar graph
32. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
Emily Dickinson
Cliche
homophone
adjective
33. 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.
mood
Percy Bysshe Shelley
complex sentence
Dialect
34. verb that can be used as an adjective
George Orwell
participial
appeal to emotion
John Keats
35. A sentence that asks a question
Henry David Thoreau
Jane Austen
interrogative sentence
past tense verb
36. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Herman Melville
Countee Cullen
historical fiction
active verb
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
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry David Thoreau
J.R.R. Tolkein
sentence fragment
38. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
J.R.R. Tolkein
Cliche
allegory
Ralph Waldo Emerson
39. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
fairy tale
Alliteration
couplet
Mary Shelley
40. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
Maya Angelou
noun
compare and contrast
appositive
41. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Willa Cather
homophone
Amy Tan
compound sentence
42. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Amy Tan
sonnet
expository
John Keats
43. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern
point of view
free verse
George Orwell
exclamatory sentence
44. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
Diction
declarative sentence
Allusion
novel
45. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
Transcendentalism
Epic
Foreshadowing
46. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
complex sentence
Simile
spatial sequence
Imagery
47. Extreme exaggeration
folk tale
hyperbole
Ralph Waldo Emerson
elegy
48. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
adverb
compare and contrast
appeal to emotion
Scaffolding
49. 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
adjective
preposition
Andrew Marvell
50. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Analogy
hyperbole
adverb
present perfect verb