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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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1. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Direct presentation
Object Pronoun
Inferences
Text - to - self (T- S)
2. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Pace
Fact
Literary elements
Predicate adjective
3. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Rhyme
Exaggeration
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Drama
4. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Figurative Language
Realistic fiction
Communication
Physical Point of View
5. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Verbal Irony
Fact
Science fiction
Communication: Rituals
6. 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.)
Theme
Type of Lit: Myth
Personification
Verbal Irony
7. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Adverb
Manner adverbs
Type of Lit: Parable
Pronoun
8. 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.
Irony
Type of Lit: Prose
Conjunction
Type of Lit: Short Story
9. A device in which a word or phrase is used to mean the exact opposite of its normal meaning. Can also be used to show that a person - situation - statement - or circumstance is not as it usually appears.
Folktales
Irony
Literary Selections: Expository
Indefinite adjective
10. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Personal Point of View
Plot: Exposition
Communication: Deviants
Type of Lit: Short Story
11. 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.)
Personal Point of View
Type of Lit: Drama
Plot: Rising Action
Hyperbole
12. (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.
Interrogative
Interjection
Initial
Historical Fiction
13. 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.
Comparative adverbs
Adjective
Text - to - text (T- T)
Literary Selections: Narrative
14. Restating in different words
Type of Lit: Essay
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Irregular verbs
Paraphrase
15. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Type of Lit: Drama
Superlative adverbs
Singular pronouns
Predicate adjective
16. 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.)
Figurative Language
Symbol
Poetry
Simile
17. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Novel
Predicate adjective
Plot: Falling action
18. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Point of View
Plot: Climax
Third Person
Figurative Language
19. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Personal Point of View
non - fiction
morpheme
Imperative
20. 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
Type of Lit: Parable
Type of Lit: Prose
Type of Lit: Novel
21. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Verbal Irony
Time adverbs
Predicate adjective
22. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Hyperbole
Verbal Irony
Positive adjective
Degree adverbs
23. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Reflection/response
Dramatic Irony
Third Person
24. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Compound sentences
Mystery
Text - to - self (T- S)
Simple sentences
25. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
non - fiction
fiction
Declarative
Initial
26. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Autobiography
Plot: Rising Action
Idiom
Indirect presentation
27. (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.
Verbal Irony
phoneme
Developing
digraph
28. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
dipthong
Text - to - world (T- W
Compound adjective
Type of Lit: Comedy
29. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Plot
Singular pronouns
Communication: Crisis
Degree adverbs
30. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory
Complex sentences
Article
Type of Lit: Allegory
31. 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.
Pronoun
Compound - complex sentences
Third Person
Hyperbole
32. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Opinion
Superlative adverbs
Exclamatory
Historical Fiction
33. 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.)
Hyperbole
Idiom
Plot: Rising Action
Possessive Pronoun
34. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Pace
Type of Lit: Myth
dipthong
Physical Point of View
35. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Complex sentences
Declarative
Time adverbs
Idiom
36. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Dramatic monologue
Noun
affix
Paraphrase
37. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Interrogative
Plot
Rhyme
Communication: Crisis
38. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
homonym
non - fiction
Direct presentation
Plot: Rising Action
39. 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.
Subject Pronoun
Communication: Encounters
Schema
Future tense
40. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Compound sentences
Plot: Inciting force
homonym
Dialogue
41. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Simile
Place adverbs
Regular verbs
Exclamatory
42. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Parable
Simple sentences
Conjunction: Coordinating
43. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Theme
Realistic fiction
Past tense
affix
44. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Personal pronouns
Compound sentences
Text - to - world (T- W
45. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Fantasy
Text - to - text (T- T)
Initial
digraph
46. A hint of clue that the author provides to the reader to suggest what will happen next of at sometime in the future in the story or narrative.
Indirect presentation
Compound - complex sentences
Foreshadow
Decoding Skills
47. 2 vowels in which the sound begins at the first vowel and moves toward the sound of the second vowel. (Ex. snout=ou - boy=oy)
Literary elements
Flashback
dipthong
Text - to - self (T- S)
48. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Direct presentation
Communication
Comparative adjective
Plot
49. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Theme
Superlative adjective
Dramatic monologue
Fantasy
50. When the author says one thing and means something else
Preposition
Tone
Verbal Irony
Comparative adverbs
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