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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. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Reflection/response
Fact
Third Person
Theme
2. These communications occur as part of a tradition - or established meeting or time when certain groups come together for discussions or in response to activities.
First Person
Type of Lit: Drama
Dialogue
Communication: Rituals
3. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Singular pronouns
Positive adjective
Exclamatory
Plot: Rising Action
4. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Physical Point of View
Paraphrase
First Person
Plot
5. 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).
Alliteration
homophone
Type of Lit: Drama
Simple sentences
6. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Personification
Plot: Rising Action
Hyperbole
Adjective
7. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Verb
non - fiction
Regular verbs
Conjunction
8. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Exaggeration
Plot
Irregular verbs
Mood
9. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
digraph
Setting
Conjunction
Initial
10. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Verb
Symbol
Demonstrative adjective
Simple sentences
11. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Complex sentences
Communication: Encounters
Exclamatory
Type of Lit: Realism
12. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
dipthong
Indefinite adjective
Third Person
Tone
13. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Realistic fiction
Comparative adverbs
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Time adverbs
14. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Tone
Common adjective
Historical Fiction
Type of Lit: Myth
15. 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.
Theme
Autobiography
Alliteration
Type of Lit: Short Story
16. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Plural pronouns
Plot: Inciting force
Pronoun
Type of Lit: Tragedy
17. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Analogy
Plot: Climax
Epic
Literary elements
18. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Initial
Verb
Play
homonym
19. 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.
Mystery
affix
Literary elements
Plot: Exposition
20. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Symbol
Indirect presentation
Future tense
Dramatic monologue
21. (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.
Reflection/response
Inferences
Future tense
Adverb
22. 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.
Personification
Foreshadow
Folktales
Tone
23. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
homophone
First Person
Literary elements
Mood
24. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Type of Lit: Essay
Personal pronouns
Plot: Resolution
Mental Point of View
25. 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.
Type of Lit: Novel
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Text - to - world (T- W
Exclamatory
26. Compare two things.
Comparative adverbs
Indefinite adjective
Tone
Pronoun
27. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Play
Object Pronoun
Direct presentation
28. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Article
Compound - complex sentences
Indirect presentation
morpheme
29. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Figurative Language
affix
Text - to - self (T- S)
Imagery
30. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
affix
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Comparative adjective
31. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Realistic fiction
dipthong
Positive adjective
Past tense
32. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Literary Selections: Narrative
Fantasy
Comparative adjective
Exaggeration
33. Restating in different words
Comparative adjective
Past tense
Paraphrase
Compound - complex sentences
34. 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.
Demonstrative adjective
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Mystery
Preposition
35. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Mood
Adjective
Literary Selections: Narrative
Past tense
36. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Dramatic Irony
Critical Analysis
Preposition
Conjunction: Subordinating
37. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Physical Point of View
Article
Predicate adjective
homophone
38. 1. Man vs. Man - One person is against another.2. Man vs. Nature - A person(s) battles with forces of nature.3. Man vs. Society - Societal values (customs) are challenged by person(s).4. Man vs. Self - Internal struggles - or test of values of a char
Possessive Pronoun
fiction
Plot: Types of Conflict
Dialogue
39. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Folktales
Interjection
Situational Irony
Compound adjective
40. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Indirect presentation
Declarative
Direct presentation
Adverb
41. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
morpheme
Declarative
non - fiction
Developing
42. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Text - to - world (T- W
Present tense
Type of Lit: Myth
Imperative
43. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Third Person
Subject Pronoun
Plot: Conflict
Plot: Inciting force
44. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Type of Lit: Essay
Conjunction: Subordinating
Time adverbs
Positive adjective
45. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Realistic fiction
Noun
morpheme
fiction
46. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Paraphrase
Type of Lit: Essay
Compound - complex sentences
Point of View
47. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Personification
morpheme
Plot: Falling action
Metaphor
48. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Manner adverbs
Type of Lit: Essay
Biography
Historical Fiction
49. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Analogy
Literary elements
Personal pronouns
Epic
50. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Plot: Resolution
Theme
Plot: Types of Conflict
Verbal Irony