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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. Extreme exaggeration
passive verb
extended metaphor
hyperbole
Modeling
2. 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
compound complex sentence
Scaffolding
personification
Robert Frost
3. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
Building Metacognition
appeal to emotion
Subject Verb Agreement
Alice Walker
4. A worn - out idea or overused expression
novel
proper noun
Cliche
myth
5. 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.
point of view
Herman Melville
Antecedent
Percy Bysshe Shelley
6. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
bar graph
verb
expository
appositive
7. African American poet who described the rich culture of african American life using rhythms influenced by jazz music. He wrote of African American hope and defiance - as well as the culture of Harlem and also had a major impact on the Harlem Renaissa
Langston Hughes
Epic
fable
independent clause
8. 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
conjunction
George Orwell
J. D. Salinger
Emily Dickinson
9. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
couplet
present tense verb
Subject Verb Agreement
metonymy
10. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
spatial sequence
Ray Bradbury
mood
compound complex sentence
11. 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
Dialect
compound complex sentence
mystery
12. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
synecdoche
Harper Lee
Irony
harlem renaissance
13. 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
fable
Amy Tan
British Romantics
personification
14. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
William Shakespeare
symbolism
spatial sequence
paradox
15. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Diction
Activating Prior Knowledge
Epic
C. S. Lewis
16. 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
C. S. Lewis
Mark Twain
John Donne
adverb
17. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
Allusion
appeal to authority
fable
setting
18. 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
passive verb
John Keats
spatial sequence
past tense verb
19. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.
Participle
symbol
J. D. Salinger
Subject Verb Agreement
20. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Foreshadowing
past perfect verb
dependent clause
21. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
sentence fragment
William Shakespeare
Countee Cullen
proper noun
22. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Willa Cather
Imagery
Participle
23. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
couplet
passive verb
Alliteration
John Keats
24. The usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people
homophone
short story
Dialect
tone
25. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
homophone
elegy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
synecdoche
26. Expresses action or state of being
J. D. Salinger
verb
complex sentence
George Orwell
27. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
apostrophe
collective noun
present perfect verb
Questioning
28. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
prepositional phrase
adverb
Metaphysical poets
metonymy
29. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Amy Tan
Analogy
Andrew Marvell
Maya Angelou
30. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
allegory
Scaffolding
Percy Bysshe Shelley
chronological sequence
31. 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
Harper Lee
J.R.R. Tolkein
preposition
symbolism
32. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
simple sentence
metonymy
interrogative sentence
George Herbert
33. 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
Transcendentalism
paradox
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Activating Prior Knowledge
34. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
John Donne
British Romantics
active verb
folk tale
35. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Transcendentalism
Participle
Maya Angelou
preposition
36. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
apostrophe
common noun
paradox
extended metaphor
37. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
appeal to authority
Diction
appeal to emotion
38. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
Allusion
apostrophe
Alliteration
compound complex sentence
39. 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).
haiku
Edgar Allan Poe
dependent clause
Countee Cullen
40. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
Analogy
fable
symbolism
conjunction
41. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Harper Lee
novel
compound complex sentence
J. D. Salinger
42. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
allegory
folk tale
independent clause
Foreshadowing
43. English Metaphysical poet; Wrote 'To his Coy Mistress'
adjective
common noun
Andrew Marvell
Simile
44. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
allegory
appeal to authority
Participle
45. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Alice Walker
Stephen Crane
Edgar Allan Poe
declarative sentence
46. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
apostrophe
fable
active verb
noun
47. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
Antecedent
persuasive
sonnet
cause and effect
48. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
Activating Prior Knowledge
collective noun
adjective
John Donne
49. 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
adjective
metonymy
50. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
interrogative sentence
John Keats
line graph
collective noun
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