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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
complex sentence
Jane Austen
metaphor
Irony
2. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
Analogy
Ray Bradbury
personification
3. 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
myth
Emily Dickinson
symbol
Langston Hughes
4. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things
Characterization
F. Scott Fitzgerald
John Keats
collective noun
5. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
Robert Frost
declarative sentence
metaphor
Ray Bradbury
6. 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
novel
myth
Zora Neale Hurston
7. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
metaphor
Transcendentalism
Dialect
tone
8. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
symbol
present perfect verb
common noun
Anne Frank
9. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
bar graph
haiku
Langston Hughes
10. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
Characterization
past perfect verb
Henry David Thoreau
science fiction
11. 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
Stephen Crane
haiku
Mark Twain
Simile
12. 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
declarative sentence
adjective
dependent clause
symbolism
13. A worn - out idea or overused expression
mood
present tense verb
Mark Twain
Cliche
14. Original and imaginative
hyperbole
Anne Frank
creative
short story
15. 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'
legend
past perfect verb
creative
Robert Frost
16. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
extended metaphor
compare and contrast
allegory
Alliteration
17. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
cause and effect
Activating Prior Knowledge
harlem renaissance
Andrew Marvell
18. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
exclamatory sentence
Anne Frank
simple sentence
independent clause
19. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Andrew Marvell
exclamatory sentence
Maya Angelou
Willa Cather
20. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
C. S. Lewis
line graph
noun
proper noun
21. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
independent clause
allegory
homophone
Participle
22. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
appeal to authority
Alice Walker
line graph
expository
23. 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.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Robert Frost
adverb
fairy tale
24. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
Edgar Allan Poe
Activating Prior Knowledge
metonymy
Ralph Waldo Emerson
25. Extreme exaggeration
science fiction
hyperbole
Henry David Thoreau
personification
26. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
metaphor
dependent clause
Metaphysical poets
Irony
27. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
Metaphysical poets
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Simile
proper noun
28. American transcendentalist who was against a government that supported slavery. He wrote down his beliefs in Walden. He started the movement of civil - disobedience when he refused to pay the toll - tax to support him Mexican War; wrote 'Walden'
Henry David Thoreau
infinitive
complex sentence
conjunction
29. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
Alice Walker
point of view
synecdoche
British Romantics
30. 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
metaphor
Langston Hughes
Ralph Waldo Emerson
common noun
31. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
independent clause
conjunction
paradox
point of view
32. 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
myth
John Keats
symbolism
Cliche
33. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
historical fiction
harlem renaissance
Andrew Marvell
34. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
myth
George Herbert
John Donne
apostrophe
35. 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
compound sentence
future perfect verb
Metaphysical poets
preposition
36. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
declarative sentence
Alliteration
Robert Frost
complex sentence
37. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
mood
apostrophe
Cliche
future perfect verb
38. 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
Stephen Crane
compound complex sentence
infinitive
George Orwell
39. verb that can be used as an adjective
compound sentence
extended metaphor
tone
participial
40. 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'
Amy Tan
short story
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Characterization
41. 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).
homophone
pronoun
participial
Edgar Allan Poe
42. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
compound complex sentence
Epic
Alice Walker
legend
43. 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
preposition
Transcendentalism
Analogy
British Romantics
44. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
exclamatory sentence
voice
apostrophe
compare and contrast
45. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Herman Melville
Harper Lee
C. S. Lewis
John Keats
46. 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
mood
C. S. Lewis
metonymy
Countee Cullen
47. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions
metaphor
apostrophe
allegory
Alliteration
48. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
exclamatory sentence
Imagery
Epic
sonnet
49. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
line graph
George Orwell
pie chart
George Herbert
50. American poet and transcendentalist who was famous for his beliefs on nature - as demonstrated in his book - Leaves of Grass. He was therefore an important part for the buildup of American literature and breaking the traditional rhyme method in writi
Walt Whitman
Jane Austen
style
Allusion