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Praxis 2 English Literature
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1. Tending or intended or having the power to induce action or belief

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

3. A word that joins two phrases or sentences

4. Person - Place - Thing - or Idea

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

6. A sad or mournful poem

7. A figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole for a part

8. 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.

9. The use of hints and clues to suggest what will happen later in a plot

10. Explanatory; serving to explain; N. exposition: explaining; exhibition

11. Two consecutive rhyming lines

12. Wrote The Joy Luck Club (widely hailed for its depiction of the Chinese - American experience of the late 20th century)

13. When reality is different from appearance; the implied meaning of a statement is the opposite of its literal or obvious meaning

14. questions to reinforce concepts and elicit analysis - synthesis - or evaluation

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

16. A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events

17. A following of one thing after another in time

18. Verb form used when discussing something that ocurred in the past but (the memory) is presently in your mind

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

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

21. The fluency - rhythm and liveliness in writing that makes it unique to the writer

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

23. A piece of prose fiction - usually under 10000 words

24. The choices a writer makes; the combination of distinctive features of a literary work

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