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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Type of Lit: Realism
Plot: Conflict
Plot
Text - to - text (T- T)
2. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Dramatic Irony
Third Person
Future tense
Rhyme
3. A group of words with a special - more figurative meaning instead of the literal meaning. (Ex. Charlie planned a presentation on water resources - but jack stole his thunder when he told the boss it was his idea.)
Irony
Imperative
Type of Lit: Prose
Idiom
4. (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.
Interrogative
Folktales
Positive adverbs
Developing
5. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
homonym
Manner adverbs
Plot
Subject Pronoun
6. The writer tells the story another character addressing him as 'you'. It appears to the readers as if they are the characters being told what to do and what to feel.
Plot: Exposition
Manner adverbs
Second Person
Mental Point of View
7. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Reflection/response
Type of Lit: Novel
digraph
Mystery
8. The device in which an author interrupts the story or narrative to go back and explain an earlier event or recall an earlier memory of a character.
fiction
Subject Pronoun
Flashback
Time adverbs
9. Compare 3 or more things.
Oxymoron
Superlative adverbs
Communication: Rituals
Plural pronouns
10. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Science fiction
Indirect presentation
homonym
Future tense
11. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Science fiction
Text - to - self (T- S)
fiction
Metaphor
12. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Folktales
Flashback
Time adverbs
Fantasy
13. A story that was created to explain some natural force of nature - religious belief - or social phenomenon. The gods and goddesses have supernatural powers but the human characters often do not.
Point of View
Communication
Science fiction
Type of Lit: Myth
14. About someone's life (written by another person)
Motif
Plot: Inciting force
Predicate adjective
Biography
15. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Plot: Conflict
Epic
Communication: Crisis
16. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Imperative
Text - to - world (T- W
Realistic fiction
Noun
17. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Predicate adjective
Noun
Poetry
Adjective
18. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Place adverbs
Article
Personal pronouns
Personification
19. (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
Preposition
Type of Lit: Short Story
Plot: Conflict
20. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Object Pronoun
digraph
Folktales
Plural pronouns
21. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Opinion
Inferences
Plot: Exposition
Prepositional phrase
22. An exaggeration or use of a statement that enhances the effects of the words - which may or may not be realistic. (Ex. It was such a hot summer that even the cactus was sweating.)
Type of Lit: Novel
Autobiography
Hyperbole
Communication: Rituals
23. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Complex sentences
Verb
Mental Point of View
phoneme
24. 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)
Onomatopoeia
Text - to - self (T- S)
Positive adjective
Place adverbs
25. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Science fiction
Indefinite adjective
Physical Point of View
Dialogue
26. When a conjunction joins a word to a word - a phrase to a phrase - or a clause to a clause; the words or phrases or clauses joined must be equal or of the same type.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Mystery
Two - syllable adjective
Conjunction: Subordinating
27. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Text - to - world (T- W
Interrogative
Comparative adverbs
Type of Lit: Novel
28. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Physical Point of View
Exaggeration
Possessive Pronoun
Declarative
29. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Proper adjective
Exaggeration
Conjunction: Coordinating
Flashback
30. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Text - to - self (T- S)
Type of Lit: Allegory
phoneme
Setting
31. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Historical Fiction
Personal Point of View
Situational Irony
phoneme
32. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
non - fiction
phoneme
Science fiction
Irony
33. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Dialogue
Text - to - text (T- T)
Type of Lit: Novel
Third Person
34. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Historical Fiction
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Conjunction: Coordinating
non - fiction
35. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Inferences
Poetry
Plot: Inciting force
Opinion
36. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Setting
morpheme
Positive adverbs
Flashback
37. A narrative is a constructive format (as a work of speech - writing - song - film - television - video games - photography or theatre) that describes a sequence of non - fictional or fictional events.
non - fiction
Literary Selections: Narrative
Schema
Type of Lit: Essay
38. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Future tense
Historical Fiction
Place adverbs
homonym
39. The consonant sounds are repeated - generally at the beginning of a word or within words. (Ex. The sneaky snake was snoring loudly as she slept soundly.)
Alliteration
Compound - complex sentences
Hyperbole
Schema
40. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Communication
Past tense
homonym
Point of View
41. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Decoding Skills
Conjunction: Subordinating
Poetry
Plot
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).
Biography
Exclamatory
digraph
homophone
43. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Inferences
Tone
Degree adverbs
Type of Lit: Comedy
44. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Adverb
Onomatopoeia
Plot: Types of Conflict
Type of Lit: Myth
45. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Type of Lit: Myth
Figurative Language
Idiom
46. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Metaphor
Conjunction: Correlative
Text - to - text (T- T)
Irregular adjective
47. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
Situational Irony
Opinion
Literary Selections: Expository
48. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Initial
Autobiography
Critical Analysis
Demonstrative adjective
49. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Possessive Pronoun
Communication: Deviants
Fact
Type of Lit: Fable
50. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Plot: Resolution
Analogy
Comparative adverbs
Three (or more) syllable adjective