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Praxis Literature
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Subjects
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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. 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)
First Person
Personal Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Decoding Skills
2. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Compound adjective
Literary elements
Simile
Critical Analysis
3. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Science fiction
Biography
Type of Lit: Drama
Type of Lit: Allegory
4. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Present tense
Decoding Skills
Inferences
Plural pronouns
5. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Plural pronouns
Plot
Common adjective
Third Person
6. Compare 3 or more things.
Literary elements
Superlative adverbs
Common adjective
dipthong
7. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
non - fiction
Communication: Rituals
Superlative adjective
Irregular adjective
8. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Place adverbs
Hyperbole
Fantasy
Setting
9. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
digraph
Type of Lit: Tragedy
fiction
grapheme
10. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Direct presentation
Epic
Paraphrase
Second Person
11. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Literary Selections: Expository
Figurative Language
Subject Pronoun
Idiom
12. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Metaphor
Epic
Theme
Communication: Crisis
13. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Analogy
Conjunction
Present tense
Plot: Falling action
14. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Plot: Resolution
Realistic fiction
Literary Selections: Narrative
digraph
15. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Prose
fiction
Singular pronouns
Prepositional phrase
16. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Irregular adjective
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Second Person
17. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Analogy
grapheme
Situational Irony
Declarative
18. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Biography
Exclamatory
Pace
Point of View
19. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Flashback
Comparative adjective
Literary Selections: Narrative
Personal pronouns
20. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Personification
Type of Lit: Prose
Irony
21. 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.)
Idiom
Communication: Crisis
Type of Lit: Realism
Comparative adjective
22. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Past tense
Communication: Rituals
Communication: Deviants
phoneme
23. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Plot: Resolution
Object Pronoun
Text - to - self (T- S)
Possessive Pronoun
24. 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
Subject Pronoun
Adverb
Regular verbs
25. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Irregular verbs
Dramatic monologue
Demonstrative adjective
Complex sentences
26. Shows the action is happening now.
Theme
Positive adjective
Present tense
Pronoun
27. 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.)
Irony
Simile
Type of Lit: Drama
Symbol
28. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Superlative adjective
Oxymoron
Irregular adjective
29. 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.
Third Person
Conjunction: Coordinating
Alliteration
Science fiction
30. 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.
Preposition
Plot: Resolution
Communication: Rituals
Pronoun
31. 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
Literary Selections: Expository
Demonstrative adjective
32. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Symbol
Comparative adjective
Epic
Possessive Pronoun
33. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
fiction
Type of Lit: Allegory
Type of Lit: Prose
Subject Pronoun
34. 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
First Person
Play
Tone
35. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Place adverbs
Declarative
Communication
36. 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.
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Myth
Communication: Crisis
Realistic fiction
37. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Preposition
Positive adverbs
Plot: Rising Action
Prepositional phrase
38. 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.
homophone
Second Person
Conjunction: Coordinating
Simple sentences
39. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Type of Lit: Parable
Literary elements
Past tense
Time adverbs
40. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Short Story
Plot: Conflict
Literary Selections: Narrative
41. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
grapheme
Third Person
Interrogative
homophone
42. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Text - to - text (T- T)
dipthong
Common adjective
Declarative
43. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
non - fiction
First Person
Tone
Compound sentences
44. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Regular verbs
Conjunction: Subordinating
Figurative Language
Indirect presentation
45. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
fiction
Dramatic monologue
Positive adjective
Plot
46. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Indefinite adjective
Conjunction
morpheme
Predicate adjective
47. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Personal Point of View
Subject Pronoun
Communication: Deviants
Text - to - world (T- W
48. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Literary elements
Future tense
Irregular adjective
Opinion
49. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Object Pronoun
Fantasy
Place adverbs
Personal pronouns
50. 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.)
Plural pronouns
Imagery
Oxymoron
Hyperbole