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Praxis 2 English Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
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1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief






2. A phrase beginning with a preposition






3. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa






4. A circular chart divided into triangular areas proportional to the percentages of the whole






5. Was an American author - best known for his 1951 novel The Catcher in the Rye - as well as his reclusive nature.






6. Tell how things are alike and different






7. A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as')






8. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.






9. A clause in a complex sentence that can stand alone as a complete sentence






10. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story






11. 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






12. A word that takes the place of a noun






13. 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






14. 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'






15. 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






16. Attempts to affect the listener's personal feelings






17. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration






18. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)






19. drawing a comparison in order to show a similarity in some respect






20. Imaginative British writer concerned with social justice (1903-1950) - author of 'Animal Farm' and '1984'






21. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished






22. 14 line poem - fixed rhyme scheme - fixed meter (usually 10 syllables per line)






23. A short moral story (often with animal characters)






24. 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






25. A writer's or speaker's choice of words






26. A sad or mournful poem






27. A noun that is singular in form but refers to a group of people or things






28. A graph that uses line segments to show changes that occur over time






29. A sentence composed of at least one main clause and one subordinate clause






30. A worn - out idea or overused expression






31. Wrote I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings; African - American autobiographer and poet






32. A sentence having no coordinate clauses or subordinate clauses






33. Wrote The Color Purple; American author - self - declared feminist and womanist; won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction






34. Modernism -- The Great Gatsby; Winter Dreams; wrote during the jazz age






35. At least one dependent clause and two or more independent clauses






36. describes or modifies a noun or pronoun






37. Two consecutive rhyming lines






38. 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






39. A technique by which a writer addresses an inanimate object - an idea - or a person who is either dead or absent.






40. Using anticipation guides - semantic feature analysis - pretests - and discussions






41. Uses an authority figure to support a position - idea - argument - or course of action






42. Where and when the story takes place (established through description of scenes - colors - smellls - etc)






43. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)






44. A literary work in which characters - objects - or actions represent abstractions






45. American transcendentalist who was against slavery and stressed self - reliance - optimism - self - improvement - self - confidence - and freedom. He was a prime example of a transcendentalist and helped further the movement; Wrote 'Self - Reliance'






46. 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






47. Methods a writer uses to develop characters






48. Unrhymed verse without a consistent metrical pattern






49. 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






50. Wrote The Diary of a Young Girl (autobiographical literature set between 1942-1944) 1st published in 1952 - chronicles her life in Nazi Germany