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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