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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
common noun
adjective
Antecedent
British Romantics
2. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
Andrew Marvell
creative
personification
3. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
past perfect verb
compare and contrast
compound complex sentence
4. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Ray Bradbury
apostrophe
persuasive
sonnet
5. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Countee Cullen
complex sentence
noun
6. 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
George Orwell
Building Metacognition
legend
7. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
tone
Robert Frost
paradox
mystery
8. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
Alliteration
proper noun
Emily Dickinson
pie chart
9. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
compound complex sentence
personification
Imagery
John Keats
10. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
elegy
J.R.R. Tolkein
pie chart
metaphor
11. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
common noun
Henry David Thoreau
cause and effect
compound complex sentence
12. 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
point of view
fairy tale
appeal to emotion
13. 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'
William Shakespeare
Harper Lee
Henry David Thoreau
setting
14. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events
complex sentence
myth
preposition
Mark Twain
15. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work
style
setting
Robert Frost
British Romantics
16. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
myth
Edgar Allan Poe
Building Metacognition
compound sentence
17. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
elegy
participial
Analogy
sonnet
18. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Activating Prior Knowledge
Diction
participial
conjunction
19. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
folk tale
infinitive
Alice Walker
20. 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
Dialect
compare and contrast
adverb
Scaffolding
21. 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
Antecedent
Walt Whitman
Mark Twain
22. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
Participle
Building Metacognition
C. S. Lewis
Transcendentalism
23. 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
Henry David Thoreau
Transcendentalism
Ralph Waldo Emerson
24. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
interrogative sentence
Antecedent
noun
Harper Lee
25. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Irony
harlem renaissance
George Herbert
Henry David Thoreau
26. A relationship in which change in one variable causes change in another
cause and effect
dependent clause
complex sentence
couplet
27. 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
paradox
independent clause
mood
J.R.R. Tolkein
28. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation
Questioning
Jane Austen
style
present perfect verb
29. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
independent clause
metonymy
appeal to emotion
mystery
30. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
Alice Walker
historical fiction
future perfect verb
sonnet
31. 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
Dialect
folk tale
George Herbert
32. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
present perfect verb
short story
Questioning
Mark Twain
33. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
fairy tale
Activating Prior Knowledge
Herman Melville
fable
34. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
passive verb
mood
independent clause
personification
35. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
limerick
novel
John Keats
36. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
Henry David Thoreau
Characterization
mood
37. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
fable
Maya Angelou
John Keats
conjunction
38. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
Mary Shelley
pronoun
noun
39. A phrase beginning with a preposition
Harper Lee
simple sentence
noun
prepositional phrase
40. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
historical fiction
Countee Cullen
Ray Bradbury
Dialect
41. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
future perfect verb
allegory
Modeling
conjunction
42. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
J. D. Salinger
dependent clause
prepositional phrase
line graph
43. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
homophone
free verse
voice
44. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
complex sentence
Antecedent
John Donne
Cliche
45. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Building Metacognition
Modeling
fairy tale
J.R.R. Tolkein
46. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
common noun
Metaphysical poets
Ray Bradbury
47. something visible that by association or convention represents something else that is invisible
sentence fragment
symbol
present perfect verb
noun
48. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
legend
setting
Building Metacognition
future perfect verb
49. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
proper noun
present tense verb
Herman Melville
Activating Prior Knowledge
50. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
setting
Building Metacognition
symbolism
Alliteration