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Praxis Literature
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Subjects
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Plot: Resolution
Exaggeration
Simple sentences
Proper adjective
2. (construction stage) Reader has contact with content - structure - genre - and the language of the text - using prior knowledge to build an understanding of the elements.
Initial
Common adjective
Plot: Inciting force
Fantasy
3. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Theme
Type of Lit: Fable
Epic
Schema
4. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
Communication: Encounters
Rhyme
digraph
5. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Type of Lit: Parable
Play
Second Person
Tone
6. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Biography
Compound sentences
Reflection/response
Interrogative
7. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Irony
Compound adjective
dipthong
Conjunction: Correlative
8. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Plural pronouns
Autobiography
dipthong
homonym
9. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Plot: Rising Action
Flashback
Metaphor
Superlative adjective
10. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
phoneme
Type of Lit: Prose
Manner adverbs
Place adverbs
11. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Plot: Climax
Symbol
Comparative adverbs
Folktales
12. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Plot: Inciting force
Theme
Verb
13. Daily communications that happen as people interact with one another in their common environment. These relations may occur in the home - at work - in school - in the community - or on the computer.
Communication: Crisis
Imagery
Communication: Encounters
Dialogue
14. (extension of reading stage) Reader used text knowledge to connect to personal knowledge of the reader's life - the lives of others - and the human condition.
Onomatopoeia
Compound adjective
Pace
Reflection/response
15. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Physical Point of View
Mental Point of View
Compound sentences
16. A narrative that can be read in one sitting. Has few characters and often one conflict. Characters go through some type of change by the end of the story.
Type of Lit: Essay
Time adverbs
Folktales
Type of Lit: Short Story
17. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Declarative
Realistic fiction
morpheme
First Person
18. The use of words that are appealing to the sense of hearing and mimic sounds that aid in the description for the reader. (Ex. boom - sizzle - tinkle - hiss - chiming - tolling - moan - groan - purr - squeak)
Exaggeration
Onomatopoeia
Communication: Crisis
Figurative Language
19. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Communication: Deviants
Dialogue
Third Person
Adverb
20. The author tells the story from an outside voice. The narrator is not one of the characters in the story but informs the reader about the characters.
Literary elements
Future tense
Third Person
Biography
21. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Science fiction
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Comedy
Irregular verbs
22. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Plural pronouns
non - fiction
Inferences
23. Words that are spelled differently - pronounced identically - but have different meanings. (Ex. two - too - to; isle - aisle; ball - bawl; sweet - suite; here - hear; pair - pear; pain - pane).
Historical Fiction
homophone
Communication: Crisis
Exclamatory
24. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Dramatic monologue
Flashback
Exaggeration
25. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Superlative adverbs
Fantasy
Setting
Science fiction
26. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Type of Lit: Parable
Point of View
Verbal Irony
Time adverbs
27. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Positive adjective
Plural pronouns
Two - syllable adjective
Plot: Falling action
28. Connection is defined as the comparison between what is currently being read to that of other literary works that have been read in the past.
Critical Analysis
Text - to - text (T- T)
Irregular verbs
Tone
29. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Mood
non - fiction
Predicate adjective
Noun
30. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Communication: Rituals
homophone
Type of Lit: Fable
Type of Lit: Drama
31. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Mood
Autobiography
Compound sentences
Manner adverbs
32. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Imagery
Comparative adjective
Literary Selections: Expository
Historical Fiction
33. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Demonstrative adjective
Schema
Oxymoron
digraph
34. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Interrogative
Opinion
Physical Point of View
Irregular adjective
35. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Verb
Literary Selections: Expository
Communication
Science fiction
36. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Flashback
Interjection
Onomatopoeia
37. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Plot: Resolution
Conjunction: Correlative
Science fiction
Interrogative
38. A figure of speech used as a comparison of two unrelated objects - concepts - or ideas without using the words like or as. (Ex. The girl was a hog when it came to ice cream.)
Text - to - text (T- T)
Figurative Language
Metaphor
Superlative adjective
39. Is a specific use of language that appeals to the readers' senses. Act of forming mental pictures by the reader and to form these pictures while reading.
Plot: Exposition
Imagery
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Essay
40. A story written for the purpose of performance
Motif
Play
Flashback
Schema
41. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Direct presentation
Plot: Conflict
non - fiction
Personal Point of View
42. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Indefinite adjective
Type of Lit: Short Story
grapheme
Foreshadow
43. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Personal Point of View
Poetry
Conjunction: Correlative
Verb
44. Shows the action is happening now.
Present tense
Verb
Plot: Falling action
Past tense
45. Compare two things.
Prepositional phrase
Comparative adverbs
Plot: Types of Conflict
Type of Lit: Tragedy
46. Attachment to a base or root word.
Compound sentences
affix
Pace
Direct presentation
47. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Text - to - self (T- S)
Positive adverbs
Second Person
Preposition
48. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Inferences
Future tense
Personal pronouns
Onomatopoeia
49. Restating in different words
Irony
Direct presentation
Paraphrase
Mental Point of View
50. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Onomatopoeia
Decoding Skills
Poetry
Opinion