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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Past tense
Inferences
Epic
Compound - complex sentences
2. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Personification
Communication
Demonstrative adjective
Plot: Conflict
3. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Type of Lit: Realism
Demonstrative adjective
Article
Compound - complex sentences
4. Connections are on a larger - broader scale - and this happens when students are able to relay what occurs in a literary work to what ensues in the world.
Time adverbs
Dialogue
Text - to - world (T- W
Type of Lit: Drama
5. The author takes the point of view of a character providing personal thoughts or feelings and shares what other characters do and say. This is the 'I' narrative.
Proper adjective
Two - syllable adjective
Complex sentences
First Person
6. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Present tense
Past tense
Exaggeration
Communication: Crisis
7. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Text - to - text (T- T)
morpheme
Communication: Deviants
homonym
8. 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.
Literary Selections: Expository
Interjection
Type of Lit: Drama
Text - to - text (T- T)
9. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Folktales
Pace
Compound adjective
Text - to - text (T- T)
10. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Exaggeration
Literary Selections: Expository
digraph
Subject Pronoun
11. A literary work in which there is a downfall of the hero due to a tragic flaw or personal characteristic: often ends with an unhappy ending.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Communication
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Irony
12. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Indefinite adjective
Communication: Crisis
Communication: Encounters
13. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Personal Point of View
dipthong
Verbal Irony
Time adverbs
14. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Type of Lit: Realism
Exaggeration
Future tense
Conjunction
15. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Reflection/response
Pace
Situational Irony
Preposition
16. 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.
Type of Lit: Parable
Rhyme
Common adjective
Third Person
17. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Physical Point of View
Third Person
Plot: Conflict
Simile
18. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Analogy
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Future tense
Irony
19. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Subject Pronoun
Simile
Fantasy
Two - syllable adjective
20. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Complex sentences
Theme
Interrogative
Degree adverbs
21. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Fable
Adverb
homonym
22. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Exaggeration
Foreshadow
Plot: Inciting force
Mood
23. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Theme
Type of Lit: Drama
Type of Lit: Realism
Biography
24. A non - fiction piece that is often short and used to express the writer's opinion about a topic or to share information on a subject.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Simple sentences
Pronoun
Type of Lit: Essay
25. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Autobiography
Literary elements
Communication
Communication: Deviants
26. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Situational Irony
Comparative adverbs
Adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
27. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Developing
Compound sentences
Plot: Resolution
Type of Lit: Essay
28. A pair of words that when combined have the opposite meanings. (Ex. found missing - exact estimate - tragic comedy - old news - small fortune - pretty ugly - jumbo shrimp
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Plot: Rising Action
Place adverbs
29. 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)
Metaphor
Onomatopoeia
Type of Lit: Myth
Flashback
30. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Decoding Skills
Plot: Inciting force
Type of Lit: Essay
Poetry
31. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Inferences
Critical Analysis
Personification
Two - syllable adjective
32. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Setting
Plot
Plot: Exposition
Compound adjective
33. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Adverb
Alliteration
Type of Lit: Comedy
morpheme
34. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Subject Pronoun
Compound sentences
Conjunction: Subordinating
Irregular adjective
35. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Proper adjective
Plural pronouns
Literary Selections: Expository
Type of Lit: Fable
36. A story written for the purpose of performance
Play
Type of Lit: Myth
Imagery
Conjunction: Coordinating
37. 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.
Play
Imagery
Positive adjective
Onomatopoeia
38. A comparison of two unrelated objects - concepts - or ideas through the use of the words like or as. (Ex. My words trickled off my tongue like raindrops on a windshield.)
Plot: Inciting force
Simile
Communication: Rituals
Comparative adverbs
39. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Superlative adjective
Autobiography
Plot: Inciting force
Type of Lit: Short Story
40. (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.
Plural pronouns
Reflection/response
Communication: Rituals
Common adjective
41. Shows the action is happening now.
Reflection/response
Irregular adjective
Object Pronoun
Present tense
42. 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).
Science fiction
Preposition
homophone
Exaggeration
43. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Place adverbs
Plot: Climax
Historical Fiction
Personal pronouns
44. Is a word that names a person - place - thing - concept - idea - act - or characteristic. Nouns give names to everything that exists - has existed - or will exist in the world.
phoneme
Communication: Rituals
homophone
Noun
45. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Verbal Irony
Article
Communication: Deviants
Realistic fiction
46. (extending stage) Reader delves into the text - using background knowledge to build an understanding of the literary piece with new information being absorbed and used to ask questions.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Communication: Encounters
Developing
Initial
47. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Past tense
Text - to - text (T- T)
Play
fiction
48. The use of descriptive works in such a way as to give human characteristics to a nonhuman thing such as an object - idea or animal. (Ex. The dog danced with joy when she was given a bone.)
Personification
Manner adverbs
Present tense
Singular pronouns
49. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
phoneme
Type of Lit: Myth
Prepositional phrase
Singular pronouns
50. Is a word used in place of or to replace a noun. Pronouns include: I - me - myself - you - yours - yourself - we - us - ours - he - she - his - her - hers - they - their - theirs - it - its.
Subject Pronoun
Pronoun
Third Person
Irregular adjective