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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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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. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Symbol
Schema
affix
Foreshadow
2. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Verb
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Dramatic Irony
Third Person
3. 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.
Flashback
Interrogative
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Comedy
4. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Declarative
Manner adverbs
Irony
Analogy
5. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Physical Point of View
Dramatic monologue
Figurative Language
6. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Interrogative
Prepositional phrase
Communication
Type of Lit: Tragedy
7. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Physical Point of View
Pace
Type of Lit: Comedy
Demonstrative adjective
8. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Compound sentences
Reflection/response
Poetry
Type of Lit: Tragedy
9. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Second Person
Autobiography
dipthong
Type of Lit: Allegory
10. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Plot: Resolution
Personal pronouns
Direct presentation
Imperative
11. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Setting
Conjunction
Realistic fiction
non - fiction
12. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Mood
Indirect presentation
Historical Fiction
Compound adjective
13. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Simple sentences
Second Person
Plot: Types of Conflict
Exaggeration
14. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Initial
Declarative
Historical Fiction
Comparative adverbs
15. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Comedy
Manner adverbs
Fact
16. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Indirect presentation
Dramatic Irony
Plot: Resolution
Motif
17. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Prose
Third Person
18. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Indirect presentation
Compound adjective
Decoding Skills
Reflection/response
19. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Noun
Direct presentation
phoneme
Communication: Crisis
20. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Deviants
Foreshadow
Autobiography
Type of Lit: Realism
21. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Future tense
Setting
Rhyme
Figurative Language
22. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Degree adverbs
Plot
Plural pronouns
morpheme
23. 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.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Irony
Pace
Imperative
24. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Paraphrase
Pronoun
First Person
Plot: Falling action
25. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Plot: Rising Action
Verbal Irony
Rhyme
Mental Point of View
26. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Type of Lit: Prose
Plot: Rising Action
Compound adjective
Fantasy
27. 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
Adjective
Fantasy
Interjection
28. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Demonstrative adjective
Text - to - self (T- S)
Poetry
29. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Mood
Interjection
Communication
Regular verbs
30. Tales that relate to the unknown and revealed through human or worldly dilemmas or situations that include horror - fantasy - crime - solving - secret events - and the supernatural.
Subject Pronoun
Second Person
Mystery
Personal Point of View
31. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Exclamatory
non - fiction
Conjunction
Manner adverbs
32. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Type of Lit: Essay
Epic
Personal Point of View
Fantasy
33. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
morpheme
Poetry
Degree adverbs
Science fiction
34. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Compound sentences
Plot: Inciting force
Motif
Text - to - text (T- T)
35. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Mood
Epic
Verbal Irony
36. (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.
Personification
Communication
Onomatopoeia
Initial
37. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Type of Lit: Myth
Verb
Degree adverbs
Flashback
38. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Mystery
Compound - complex sentences
Dramatic monologue
Situational Irony
39. 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.
Second Person
Adjective
Text - to - world (T- W
Fact
40. 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: Conflict
Initial
Superlative adverbs
Imagery
41. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Declarative
Exclamatory
Mood
Text - to - text (T- T)
42. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
phoneme
Text - to - world (T- W
Paraphrase
Conjunction: Correlative
43. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Fact
Symbol
Figurative Language
Three (or more) syllable adjective
44. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Comparative adverbs
Adverb
fiction
45. 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.)
Imagery
Communication: Rituals
Idiom
Fact
46. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Adjective
Adverb
Predicate adjective
Superlative adjective
47. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Mental Point of View
Type of Lit: Fable
Interjection
Plot: Types of Conflict
48. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Schema
Rhyme
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Allegory
49. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
non - fiction
grapheme
Alliteration
Plot: Rising Action
50. 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.
Critical Analysis
Comparative adverbs
Alliteration
First Person