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Praxis 2 English 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 narrative handed down from the past - containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements
fairy tale
complex sentence
elegy
legend
2. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses
Diction
proper noun
simple sentence
British Romantics
3. A reference to a well - known person - place - event - literary work - or work of art
appeal to authority
Allusion
Mark Twain
compound sentence
4. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
Alliteration
present tense verb
collective noun
Transcendentalism
5. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause
Antecedent
Willa Cather
Allusion
complex sentence
6. A sentence that asks a question
science fiction
Dialect
interrogative sentence
fairy tale
7. A printed and bound book that is an extended work of fiction
mood
novel
harlem renaissance
collective noun
8. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning
Walt Whitman
Dialect
Stephen Crane
Irony
9. Use of the same consonant at the beginning of each stressed syllable in a line of verse
historical fiction
Walt Whitman
C. S. Lewis
Alliteration
10. A sentence that requests or commands
exclamatory sentence
Emily Dickinson
Countee Cullen
imperative sentence
11. A following of one thing after another in time
folk tale
expository
common noun
chronological sequence
12. 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
John Keats
homophone
Participle
participial
13. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
pie chart
apostrophe
personification
fable
14. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
spatial sequence
verb
Building Metacognition
dependent clause
15. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
conjunction
Walt Whitman
Emily Dickinson
line graph
16. A worn - out idea or overused expression
Robert Frost
pie chart
Cliche
harlem renaissance
17. A verb tense discussing the past in the past
past perfect verb
Transcendentalism
bar graph
setting
18. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
short story
George Herbert
fable
tone
19. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief
exclamatory sentence
persuasive
creative
Robert Frost
20. English gothic writer who created Frankenstein's monster and married Percy Bysshe Shelley (1797-1851)
Robert Frost
Mary Shelley
Amy Tan
Maya Angelou
21. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
George Herbert
expository
metaphor
Subject Verb Agreement
22. Two consecutive rhyming lines
Edgar Allan Poe
noun
couplet
Emily Dickinson
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.
declarative sentence
Transcendentalism
Alice Walker
Percy Bysshe Shelley
24. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
Mark Twain
cause and effect
chronological sequence
Foreshadowing
25. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Zora Neale Hurston
bar graph
creative
compound complex sentence
26. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
common noun
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Modeling
novel
27. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany
Anne Frank
science fiction
prepositional phrase
historical fiction
28. verb that can be used as an adjective
Activating Prior Knowledge
participial
appositive
sentence fragment
29. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings
appeal to emotion
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stephen Crane
conjunction
30. 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
short story
fairy tale
infinitive
independent clause
31. A sad or mournful poem
Epic
Mark Twain
active verb
elegy
32. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part
synecdoche
limerick
John Keats
appeal to emotion
33. A long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds
Epic
Alliteration
Scaffolding
John Keats
34. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.
apostrophe
paradox
synecdoche
novel
35. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
Diction
common noun
Zora Neale Hurston
mood
36. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'
spatial sequence
appeal to authority
simple sentence
George Orwell
37. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)
metonymy
novel
setting
voice
38. Original and imaginative
Modeling
dependent clause
creative
paradox
39. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
Irony
Harper Lee
Diction
participial
40. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
proper noun
persuasive
mystery
allegory
41. 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
Alliteration
compound complex sentence
J.R.R. Tolkein
Zora Neale Hurston
42. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words
John Donne
John Keats
short story
Herman Melville
43. 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'
proper noun
William Shakespeare
conjunction
science fiction
44. A word or phrase that renames a nearby noun or pronoun
synecdoche
bar graph
appositive
collective noun
45. A contemporary American writer of science fiction short stories and novels which deal with moral dilemas - including The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451.
limerick
Ray Bradbury
Building Metacognition
Walt Whitman
46. 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
Building Metacognition
compound complex sentence
apostrophe
British Romantics
47. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole
novel
allegory
pie chart
sentence fragment
48. A sentence expressing strong feeling - usually punctuated with an exclamation mark
George Orwell
symbolism
exclamatory sentence
Cliche
49. A verb in which the subject is the doer of the action
active verb
verb
Ray Bradbury
personification
50. The use of one thing to stand for or represent another
novel
historical fiction
symbolism
William Shakespeare