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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. verb that can be used as an adjective






2. 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






3. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'






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






5. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern






6. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.






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






8. 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.






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






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






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






12. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage






13. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)






14. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark






15. 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.






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






17. 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






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






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






20. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea






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






22. A phrase beginning with a preposition






23. A sentence that requests or commands






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






25. comparison not using like or as; a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity






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






27. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer






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






29. 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






30. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)






31. A verb tense discussing the past in the past






32. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God






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






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






35. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun






36. 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






37. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind






38. A word that joins two phrases or sentences






39. A word that takes the place of a noun






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






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






42. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses






43. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events






44. A sad or mournful poem






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






46. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible






47. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot






48. 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






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






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