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Praxis 2 English Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)
novel
noun
declarative sentence
Amy Tan
2. A chart with bars whose lengths are proportional to quantities
science fiction
common noun
bar graph
Activating Prior Knowledge
3. Expresses action or state of being
F. Scott Fitzgerald
verb
John Donne
paradox
4. real events - places - or people are incorporated into a fictional or imaginative story
compound sentence
historical fiction
extended metaphor
Simile
5. spatial - geometrical - or geographical arrangement of ideas according to their position in space (examples: left/right - top/bottom - circular - adjacent)
appeal to emotion
Zora Neale Hurston
spatial sequence
Amy Tan
6. A sentence that requests or commands
passive verb
Ray Bradbury
imperative sentence
legend
7. Making students aware of reading strategies and how to use those strategies to learn with text; helping students activate self - knowledge and self - monitoring
free verse
Alliteration
Building Metacognition
setting
8. 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'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Robert Frost
free verse
Anne Frank
9. 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'
Modeling
Henry David Thoreau
present tense verb
infinitive
10. 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
Transcendentalism
metaphor
homophone
J.R.R. Tolkein
11. names a particular person - place - thing or idea
personification
Allusion
Mark Twain
proper noun
12. A loose group of British lyric poets of the 17th century - who shared an interest in metaphysical concerns and a common way of investigating them; favored intellect over emotions
Mary Shelley
Metaphysical poets
Edgar Allan Poe
extended metaphor
13. 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
hyperbole
Countee Cullen
exclamatory sentence
complex sentence
14. A word that joins two phrases or sentences
present perfect verb
Stephen Crane
creative
conjunction
15. 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
legend
extended metaphor
Subject Verb Agreement
16. Teacher reading aloud - teacher demonstrating appropriate responses to new types of chllenging questions - and reciprocal teaching
Modeling
J. D. Salinger
Transcendentalism
Willa Cather
17. Wrote To Kill a Mockingbird - which won a Pulitzer Prize
John Keats
Harper Lee
Participle
C. S. Lewis
18. If the subject is plural the verb has to plural also and vis - versa
Subject Verb Agreement
Foreshadowing
British Romantics
symbol
19. A verb that tells that something is happening now.
John Donne
short story
participial
present tense verb
20. A sad or mournful poem
synecdoche
British Romantics
elegy
symbol
21. A writer's or speaker's choice of words
spatial sequence
tone
Metaphysical poets
Diction
22. A metaphor developed at great length - occurring frequently in or throughout a work.
Allusion
science fiction
Antecedent
extended metaphor
23. description that appeals to the senses (sight - sound - smell - touch - taste)
mood
Imagery
Herman Melville
Andrew Marvell
24. A word that takes the place of a noun
elegy
pronoun
compound complex sentence
George Orwell
25. Methods a writer uses to develop characters
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Alliteration
proper noun
Characterization
26. A sentence composed of at least two coordinate independent clauses
compound sentence
adjective
George Herbert
infinitive
27. 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
Langston Hughes
Modeling
preposition
personification
28. A short moral story (often with animal characters)
F. Scott Fitzgerald
past perfect verb
J.R.R. Tolkein
fable
29. The perspective from which the story is told (first - person - third - person objective - third - person omniscient - etc)
point of view
Ralph Waldo Emerson
metonymy
mood
30. The act of attributing human characteristics to abstract ideas etc.
fairy tale
personification
compare and contrast
creative
31. A word that modifies a verb - an adjective - or another adverb
F. Scott Fitzgerald
adverb
Amy Tan
Alice Walker
32. Welsh Metaphysical poet - orator and Anglican priest; wrote 'Easter Wings'
George Herbert
legend
Subject Verb Agreement
prepositional phrase
33. The quality of something (an act or a piece of writing) that reveals the attitudes and presuppositions of the author
apostrophe
preposition
elegy
tone
34. A verb that tells that something has already happened. Many are formed by adding - ed.
past tense verb
Scaffolding
noun
Activating Prior Knowledge
35. A major form of Japanese verse - written in 17 syllables divided into 3 lines of 5 - 7 - and 5 syllables - and employing highly evocative allusions and comparisons - often on the subject of nature or one of the seasons.
elegy
conjunction
haiku
past tense verb
36. 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
Characterization
infinitive
John Keats
sonnet
37. 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).
dependent clause
Edgar Allan Poe
Allusion
Activating Prior Knowledge
38. Fanciful - imaginary story about a hero or heroine overcoming a problem - often involving mystical creatures - supernatural power - or magic; often a type of folktale.
fairy tale
simple sentence
apostrophe
free verse
39. English novelist noted for her insightful portrayals of middle - class families (1775-1817); wrote 'Pride & Prejudice' and 'Sense & Sensibility'
Jane Austen
Ralph Waldo Emerson
metonymy
preposition
40. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea
Cliche
noun
extended metaphor
John Keats
41. A period in the 1920s when African - American achievements in art and music and literature flourished
Participle
harlem renaissance
Questioning
personification
42. A sentence that makes a statement or declaration
noun
free verse
declarative sentence
cause and effect
43. African American writer and folklore scholar who played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance; wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God
Walt Whitman
Zora Neale Hurston
Stephen Crane
paradox
44. A sentence that asks a question
interrogative sentence
participial
compare and contrast
Ray Bradbury
45. A genre - elements of fiction and fantasy with scientific fact. science - fiction stories are set in the future
past perfect verb
Simile
science fiction
collective noun
46. 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
mood
pie chart
hyperbole
Walt Whitman
47. Tell how things are alike and different
Participle
expository
compare and contrast
collective noun
48. 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.
participial
present perfect verb
Percy Bysshe Shelley
appositive
49. American writer whose experiences at sea provided the factual basis of Moby - Dick (1851) - considered among the greatest American novels
spatial sequence
Ray Bradbury
Herman Melville
Maya Angelou
50. United States writer and humorist best known for his novels about Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn (1835-1910)
William Shakespeare
Mark Twain
compound sentence
Maya Angelou