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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
voice
Activating Prior Knowledge
Alliteration
exclamatory sentence
2. 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'
voice
Robert Frost
pronoun
participial
3. A phrase beginning with a preposition
past tense verb
chronological sequence
Herman Melville
prepositional phrase
4. A sentence that requests or commands
fairy tale
imperative sentence
passive verb
present perfect verb
5. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
fable
Stephen Crane
adjective
6. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
Subject Verb Agreement
expository
independent clause
creative
7. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Walt Whitman
Modeling
historical fiction
Anne Frank
8. Original and imaginative
Willa Cather
creative
preposition
J. D. Salinger
9. 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
dependent clause
Foreshadowing
symbolism
present perfect verb
10. Expresses action or state of being
verb
line graph
Antecedent
F. Scott Fitzgerald
11. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
Antecedent
point of view
historical fiction
collective noun
12. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
pie chart
appositive
creative
Subject Verb Agreement
13. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
homophone
George Orwell
Subject Verb Agreement
passive verb
14. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
paradox
bar graph
Diction
Irony
15. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
Allusion
John Keats
free verse
appeal to authority
16. 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
spatial sequence
Allusion
short story
Scaffolding
17. 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.
prepositional phrase
Percy Bysshe Shelley
sonnet
point of view
18. 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
voice
John Keats
harlem renaissance
Emily Dickinson
19. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
Mary Shelley
participial
persuasive
Ralph Waldo Emerson
20. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot
Foreshadowing
Maya Angelou
Subject Verb Agreement
allegory
21. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
line graph
Langston Hughes
Simile
22. 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
Walt Whitman
legend
pie chart
23. Tell how things are alike and different
noun
compare and contrast
Foreshadowing
Herman Melville
24. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Amy Tan
Countee Cullen
Diction
dependent clause
25. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
infinitive
George Orwell
John Donne
Amy Tan
26. 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
Allusion
collective noun
cause and effect
Langston Hughes
27. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
infinitive
compound complex sentence
line graph
noun
28. Wrote 'Any Human to Another -' 'Color -' and 'The Ballad of the Brown Girl;' American Romantic poet; leading African - American poets of his time; associated with generation of poets of the Harlem Renaissance
symbol
voice
Modeling
Countee Cullen
29. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
proper noun
Irony
fable
adverb
30. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
present tense verb
Willa Cather
sentence fragment
John Donne
31. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action
present perfect verb
appeal to authority
Harper Lee
Dialect
32. 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
point of view
cause and effect
exclamatory sentence
33. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
couplet
F. Scott Fitzgerald
bar graph
simple sentence
34. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
myth
proper noun
Emily Dickinson
Characterization
35. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
Harper Lee
Herman Melville
Stephen Crane
extended metaphor
36. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
proper noun
simple sentence
legend
allegory
37. 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
Mary Shelley
voice
Ralph Waldo Emerson
38. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
free verse
dependent clause
Maya Angelou
harlem renaissance
39. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun
complex sentence
John Keats
common noun
adjective
40. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
hyperbole
free verse
metonymy
41. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Cliche
William Shakespeare
haiku
Jane Austen
42. A following of one thing after another in time
Countee Cullen
dependent clause
Transcendentalism
chronological sequence
43. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
passive verb
Imagery
present perfect verb
metaphor
44. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
folk tale
Transcendentalism
allegory
compound sentence
45. A self - contradictory statement that on closer examination proves true; a person or thing with seemingly contradictory qualities
paradox
passive verb
fairy tale
symbol
46. 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
infinitive
prepositional phrase
declarative sentence
Robert Frost
47. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
Zora Neale Hurston
Mark Twain
passive verb
interrogative sentence
48. A word that takes the place of a noun
Maya Angelou
historical fiction
appositive
pronoun
49. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
Foreshadowing
past perfect verb
Zora Neale Hurston
50. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
Scaffolding
pie chart
J.R.R. Tolkein
William Shakespeare