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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. A worn - out idea or overused expression
noun
fable
legend
Cliche
2. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
noun
Diction
Simile
couplet
3. A following of one thing after another in time
chronological sequence
Diction
voice
harlem renaissance
4. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
John Donne
infinitive
synecdoche
5. 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
legend
extended metaphor
Transcendentalism
Stephen Crane
6. Original and imaginative
creative
paradox
Building Metacognition
personification
7. Two consecutive rhyming lines
participial
couplet
future perfect verb
Analogy
8. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Mary Shelley
infinitive
metonymy
Amy Tan
9. A sad or mournful poem
elegy
free verse
Metaphysical poets
metonymy
10. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
persuasive
dependent clause
Epic
11. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence
Herman Melville
independent clause
common noun
compound complex sentence
12. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
setting
point of view
short story
Willa Cather
13. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')
Simile
Transcendentalism
Harper Lee
mystery
14. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
mystery
fable
noun
Jane Austen
15. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
George Herbert
Modeling
spatial sequence
cause and effect
16. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Mark Twain
Langston Hughes
Jane Austen
free verse
17. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Mark Twain
Subject Verb Agreement
John Keats
allegory
18. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
Herman Melville
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Building Metacognition
imperative sentence
19. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
limerick
tone
compound complex sentence
symbolism
20. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Stephen Crane
Jane Austen
past tense verb
Allusion
21. 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
participial
limerick
Edgar Allan Poe
Dialect
22. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
Transcendentalism
apostrophe
personification
hyperbole
23. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
proper noun
elegy
Epic
appositive
24. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
past tense verb
Simile
homophone
25. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind
present perfect verb
Alice Walker
Mark Twain
John Keats
26. 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
J.R.R. Tolkein
cause and effect
Stephen Crane
George Herbert
27. A figure of speech in which something is referred to by using the name of something that is associated with it
metonymy
Walt Whitman
exclamatory sentence
Alliteration
28. A non - finite form of the verb; verb form used as an adjective
allegory
Scaffolding
Participle
Alliteration
29. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
F. Scott Fitzgerald
common noun
appeal to emotion
30. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
setting
synecdoche
personification
Antecedent
31. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect
Amy Tan
Diction
present tense verb
Analogy
32. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
Scaffolding
line graph
point of view
short story
33. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
active verb
participial
personification
simple sentence
34. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
Cliche
folk tale
prepositional phrase
Robert Frost
35. 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'
Irony
apostrophe
Henry David Thoreau
limerick
36. 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
conjunction
tone
metaphor
Ralph Waldo Emerson
37. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Irony
John Keats
present tense verb
38. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
infinitive
Foreshadowing
Amy Tan
appositive
39. 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
compound sentence
future perfect verb
Simile
dependent clause
40. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time
synecdoche
line graph
Percy Bysshe Shelley
short story
41. A word that takes the place of a noun
mood
Metaphysical poets
pronoun
imperative sentence
42. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
Questioning
F. Scott Fitzgerald
adjective
Allusion
43. Two words are homophones if they are pronounced the same way but differ in meaning or spelling or both (e.g. bare and bear)
homophone
short story
past tense verb
John Donne
44. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
apostrophe
Mark Twain
bar graph
historical fiction
45. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
spatial sequence
Anne Frank
Subject Verb Agreement
46. 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
line graph
past tense verb
Scaffolding
appeal to emotion
47. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
dependent clause
Questioning
personification
conjunction
48. 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
J.R.R. Tolkein
free verse
Transcendentalism
hyperbole
49. 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'
William Shakespeare
future perfect verb
Cliche
Percy Bysshe Shelley
50. English clergyman and metaphysical poet celebrated as a preacher (1572-1631); wrote 'For Whom the Bell Tolls'
infinitive
John Donne
past tense verb
Modeling