Download Praxis II list of terms

Terms, Authors and Texts to Know for the Praxis II Exam
The following terms, authors and texts have appeared on the Praxis II exam, or in the
Praxis II Study Guide, between 2004 and the present. They are not comprehensive lists,
but they represent typical items that you may be asked to identify or whose meaning you
are expected to know.
Literary Terms
This is a sample of the literary terms that prospective high school English teachers will be
required to know, which have appeared on the Praxis II test (or samples of the test).
Abstract
Adjective
Affective appeal
Alliteration
Allusion
Ambiguity
Analogy
Anapest
Anglo-Saxon
APA citations
Appeals to authority
Apposition
Assonance
Ballad stanza
Blank verse
Characterization
Clause (dependent, independent)
Cliché
Cognate
Colonial or Puritan American Literature
Comprehension analysis
Concrete
Conjunction
Connotation
Context cues
Conventional
Couplet
Creative response
Critical assumption
Declarative statement
Denotation
Descriptive strategy
Dialect, slang
Diction
Direct quotation
Discourses (creative, expository, persuasive)
Dramatic monologue
Early modern English
Elizabethan English
Elegy
Epic
Epigram
Euphemism
Fable
Fairy Tale
Figurative language
Flashback
Folk tale
Foreshadowing
Formal outline
Frame tale
Free verse
Gothic
Grotesque
Harlem Renaissance
Haiku
Historical fiction
Holistic evaluation/scoring
Homophones
Hyperbole
Hypothetical
Iambic Pentameter
Image, imagery
Incremental repetition
Indirect quotation
Interior monologue
Internal rhyme
Irony
Jargon
Kinesthesia
Legend
Limerick
Line graph
Logical syllogisms
Medieval
Metaphor
Metaphysical poets
Metonymy
Metrical
Metrics
Middle English
MLA format
Mock epic
Modernist, Modernism
Modify
Mood
Mystery
Myth, mythic
Narrative
Neoclassical
Noun
Novel
Object-verb pattern
Old English
Onomatopoeia
Orthography
Oxymoron
Parallelism
Paraphrase
Peer review
Personification
Petrarchan
Phonics instruction
Phrase (prepositional, appositive)
Pie chart
Point of view (first person, third person limited, third person omniscient)
Preposition
Prewriting
Primary source
Process writing
Proverbial
Quatrain
Reciprocal teaching
Restoration
Rhetorical question
Rhyme scheme
Romantics, Romanticism
Science fiction
Search engine
Secondary source
Semantics, semantic feature analysis
Sense data
Sentence (declarative, interrogative, exclamatory, interrogative)
Sentence structure (simple, compound, complex, fragment)
Sentimental appeal
Setting
Short story
Simile
Socratic method
Sonnet
Sprung rhythm
Stock character
Structural cue
Style
Syllogism
Symbol
Syntax
Tone
Tragedy
Transcendentalism
Unreliable narrator
Venn diagram
Verb
Vernacular
Voice
Writing portfolio
Authors and Works
Alcott, Louisa May
Angelou, Maya
Anonymous
Austen, Jane
Bradbury, Ray
Bradstreet, Anne
Brooks, Gwendolyn
Browning, Robert
Bryant, William Cullen
Byron, George Gordon Lord
Cary, Joyce
Cather, Willa
Chopin, Kate
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
Conrad, Joseph
Cooper, James Fenimore
Corso, Gregory
Crane, Stephen
Cullen, Countee
Dickens, Charles
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
Beowulf
Pride and Prejudice
“My Last Duchess”
The Horse’s Mouth
My Antonia
The Awakening
“Kubla Kahn”
“Frost at Midnight”
“Dejection, An Ode”
Leatherstocking Tales
Great Expectations
Tale of Two Cities
Dickinson, Emily
Donne, John
Douglass, Frederick
Dunbar, Paul Laurence
Ellison, Ralph
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Frank, Anne
Frost, Robert
Gay, John
Ginsberg, Allen
Giovanni, Nikki
Glasgow, Ellen
Hammett, Dashiell
Hardy, Thomas
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hemingway, Ernest
Herbert, George
Herrick, Robert
Houseman, A.E.
Hughes, Langston
Hughes, Ted
Hurston, Zora Neale
Irving, Washington
Jackson, Shirley
Johnson, Samuel
Jonson, Ben
Joyce, James
Keats, John
Lawrence, D.H.
Lee, Harper
Lewis, C. S.
Lowell, Amy
Lowell, Robert
Marvell, Andrew
McKay, Claude
Melville, Herman
Milton, John
Morrison, Toni
O’Neill, Eugene
Orwell, George
Parker, Dorothy
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allan
Frederick Douglass
Invisible Man
The Great Gatsby
The Professional Instinct
The Sun also Rises
The Badlands
Their Eyes Were Watching God
Rip Van Winkle
The Lottery
The Rocking Horse Winner
To Kill a Mockingbird
Fireworks
Moby Dick
Bartleby the Scrivener
Paradise Lost
Beloved
The Fall of the House of Usher
Pope, Alexander
Pound, Ezra
Reed, Ishmael
Roethke, Theodore
Salinger, J.D.
Schaeffer, Francis
Sexton, Anne
Shakespeare
Shelley, Mary
Shelley, Percy
Swift, Jonathan
Tan, Amy
Thackeray, William
Thoreau, Henry David
Tolkein, J.R.R.
Twain, Mark
Walker, Alice
Walpole, Horace
Whitman, Walt
Wilder, Thornton
Williams, Tennessee
Williams, William Carlos
Wordsworth, William
Rape of the Lock
Essay on Man
“Root Cellar”
Romeo and Juliet
King Lear
Frankenstein
Gulliver’s Travels
Joy Luck Club ntk
Vanity Fair
Walden
The Color Purple
Castle of Otranto
Our Town
Glass Menagerie
The Dance
“Lines Composed…Above Tintern Abbey”
The Prelude