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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age
complex sentence
F. Scott Fitzgerald
past perfect verb
expository
2. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
Maya Angelou
Henry David Thoreau
simple sentence
appeal to emotion
3. Fiction dealing with the solution of a crime or the unraveling of secrets
mystery
collective noun
adverb
Irony
4. Wrote in plain language & about people in Nebraska; 'O Pioneers' - 'My Antonia' - United States; writer who wrote about frontier life (1873-1947)
Cliche
passive verb
Willa Cather
creative
5. 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
proper noun
adverb
hyperbole
6. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
British Romantics
past perfect verb
Willa Cather
couplet
7. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
exclamatory sentence
short story
homophone
creative
8. The subjects recieves the action rather than does the action; not as strong as an active verb
appeal to emotion
line graph
fairy tale
passive verb
9. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses
Questioning
compound complex sentence
pronoun
prepositional phrase
10. verb that can be used as an adjective
legend
participial
myth
Alliteration
11. A tale circulated by word of mouth among the common folk; story told by common people used mainly to entertain
independent clause
folk tale
simple sentence
Alice Walker
12. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Harper Lee
Stephen Crane
metonymy
fairy tale
13. 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
Scaffolding
Transcendentalism
preposition
homophone
14. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
compound sentence
extended metaphor
symbolism
Percy Bysshe Shelley
15. 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
compound complex sentence
Stephen Crane
infinitive
pronoun
16. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet
Questioning
Maya Angelou
present perfect verb
proper noun
17. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition
expository
Willa Cather
appositive
infinitive
18. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
proper noun
elegy
personification
point of view
19. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
Imagery
synecdoche
voice
George Herbert
20. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer
Modeling
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Metaphysical poets
voice
21. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
mood
declarative sentence
Amy Tan
Irony
22. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Zora Neale Hurston
Harper Lee
Activating Prior Knowledge
23. The word - phrase - or clause to which a pronoun refers - understood by the context.
novel
George Orwell
apostrophe
Antecedent
24. A verb tense that disucsses the future in a past tense : ie 'I will have sung'
dependent clause
future perfect verb
independent clause
Subject Verb Agreement
25. 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'
J.R.R. Tolkein
adverb
persuasive
Robert Frost
26. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)
adjective
George Orwell
sonnet
Allusion
27. 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).
George Herbert
harlem renaissance
hyperbole
Edgar Allan Poe
28. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
style
novel
Harper Lee
Participle
29. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
declarative sentence
synecdoche
persuasive
Herman Melville
30. A sentence that requests or commands
imperative sentence
pie chart
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Characterization
31. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
science fiction
Mary Shelley
Modeling
William Shakespeare
32. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
adjective
independent clause
noun
adverb
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.
couplet
fairy tale
compound complex sentence
folk tale
34. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Characterization
prepositional phrase
science fiction
Dialect
35. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
appeal to authority
Amy Tan
Herman Melville
compare and contrast
36. The feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage
Characterization
common noun
mood
Diction
37. Original and imaginative
creative
future perfect verb
C. S. Lewis
compound sentence
38. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
F. Scott Fitzgerald
short story
compare and contrast
bar graph
39. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
Allusion
George Orwell
historical fiction
Henry David Thoreau
40. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction
hyperbole
J. D. Salinger
proper noun
Alice Walker
41. A word that takes the place of a noun
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alliteration
metaphor
pronoun
42. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
independent clause
dependent clause
infinitive
Ray Bradbury
43. A sentence missing a subject or verb or complete thought
sentence fragment
free verse
point of view
compound sentence
44. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
apostrophe
extended metaphor
Imagery
appositive
45. A phrase beginning with a preposition
allegory
haiku
prepositional phrase
hyperbole
46. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
paradox
Metaphysical poets
verb
47. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
Andrew Marvell
Stephen Crane
bar graph
George Orwell
48. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
spatial sequence
Mary Shelley
fable
Emily Dickinson
49. A following of one thing after another in time
Cliche
Stephen Crane
exclamatory sentence
chronological sequence
50. A narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
Harper Lee
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Alice Walker
legend