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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. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Reflection/response
Comparative adjective
Pronoun
Future tense
2. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Physical Point of View
Plot: Climax
Mystery
Type of Lit: Drama
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.)
Exaggeration
Type of Lit: Novel
non - fiction
Possessive Pronoun
4. Restating in different words
Paraphrase
Proper adjective
Realistic fiction
Literary Selections: Expository
5. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Declarative
Positive adverbs
Setting
6. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Interrogative
Prepositional phrase
fiction
Type of Lit: Realism
7. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Poetry
grapheme
digraph
Realistic fiction
8. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Indirect presentation
Preposition
Realistic fiction
Text - to - self (T- S)
9. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Fact
fiction
Object Pronoun
Second Person
10. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Analogy
Poetry
Conjunction: Coordinating
Plot: Types of Conflict
11. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Developing
Compound adjective
Dramatic Irony
Poetry
12. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Imagery
Place adverbs
Plot: Types of Conflict
Dramatic Irony
13. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Imperative
Text - to - text (T- T)
Setting
non - fiction
14. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Prose
Fantasy
Motif
15. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Exclamatory
Third Person
Type of Lit: Allegory
16. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Literary elements
Plot: Inciting force
Analogy
Plot: Climax
17. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Type of Lit: Short Story
Folktales
homonym
Figurative Language
18. 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.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Science fiction
Manner adverbs
dipthong
19. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Verbal Irony
Fantasy
Epic
Common adjective
20. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Pace
phoneme
Third Person
Exclamatory
21. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Reflection/response
Literary Selections: Narrative
Demonstrative adjective
22. 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.)
Irregular verbs
Exclamatory
digraph
Simile
23. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Manner adverbs
Indirect presentation
Fact
24. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Parable
Direct presentation
Communication: Rituals
25. 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.
Symbol
Second Person
Conjunction: Correlative
Exclamatory
26. 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.)
Inferences
Personification
digraph
Figurative Language
27. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Type of Lit: Essay
Autobiography
Object Pronoun
Type of Lit: Allegory
28. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Compound sentences
Plot: Rising Action
29. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Inferences
Compound - complex sentences
Conjunction: Correlative
Schema
30. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Singular pronouns
Compound - complex sentences
Verb
Onomatopoeia
31. 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.
Irony
Type of Lit: Allegory
Dialogue
Degree adverbs
32. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Type of Lit: Myth
phoneme
Communication: Deviants
First Person
33. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Simple sentences
Epic
Communication: Deviants
Superlative adjective
34. (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.
Hyperbole
Prepositional phrase
Rhyme
Developing
35. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Type of Lit: Comedy
Flashback
Interjection
Interrogative
36. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Poetry
morpheme
Figurative Language
Article
37. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Point of View
Positive adjective
Manner adverbs
Time adverbs
38. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Symbol
Regular verbs
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Short Story
39. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Personal Point of View
Common adjective
Communication: Crisis
Third Person
40. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Superlative adjective
Tone
Predicate adjective
Singular pronouns
41. A pair of words that when combined have the opposite meanings. (Ex. found missing - exact estimate - tragic comedy - old news - small fortune - pretty ugly - jumbo shrimp
Oxymoron
Imagery
Communication: Rituals
Conjunction
42. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Demonstrative adjective
Science fiction
phoneme
Schema
43. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Communication: Encounters
morpheme
Plot
44. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Text - to - world (T- W
Irregular adjective
Article
Initial
45. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Motif
Inferences
Indefinite adjective
Folktales
46. Compare two things.
Exclamatory
Dramatic Irony
Initial
Comparative adverbs
47. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
digraph
Future tense
Plot: Exposition
Common adjective
48. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Type of Lit: Drama
Historical Fiction
Communication
Comparative adjective
49. 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
Type of Lit: Drama
Imagery
Situational Irony
Plot: Types of Conflict
50. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Schema
Indirect presentation
Subject Pronoun
Biography