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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Physical Point of View
Compound adjective
Plot: Resolution
Type of Lit: Realism
2. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Pronoun
Personal Point of View
Literary Selections: Expository
Folktales
3. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Singular pronouns
Place adverbs
Historical Fiction
Communication: Deviants
4. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Prepositional phrase
Literary Selections: Narrative
Imperative
Plot: Falling action
5. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Degree adverbs
Type of Lit: Parable
Compound adjective
Paraphrase
6. Attachment to a base or root word.
Future tense
Exclamatory
affix
Type of Lit: Drama
7. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Article
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Positive adverbs
Idiom
8. 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
Pronoun
Future tense
grapheme
9. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Manner adverbs
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Short Story
Decoding Skills
10. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Second Person
Plot: Falling action
Plot: Conflict
Degree adverbs
11. The consonant sounds are repeated - generally at the beginning of a word or within words. (Ex. The sneaky snake was snoring loudly as she slept soundly.)
Regular verbs
Preposition
Alliteration
Simple sentences
12. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Literary Selections: Expository
Dramatic monologue
Personal Point of View
Realistic fiction
13. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Deviants
Type of Lit: Realism
affix
Plot: Exposition
14. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Paraphrase
Figurative Language
Personal pronouns
Type of Lit: Realism
15. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Place adverbs
Compound - complex sentences
Comparative adjective
16. Restating in different words
Paraphrase
Plot: Types of Conflict
Literary Selections: Expository
Communication: Crisis
17. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Physical Point of View
Literary Selections: Expository
Exaggeration
Conjunction: Subordinating
18. Express one complete thought.
Fact
Simple sentences
Complex sentences
Schema
19. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Two - syllable adjective
Reflection/response
Mood
Onomatopoeia
20. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Biography
Literary Selections: Expository
Plot: Conflict
Indirect presentation
21. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
dipthong
Exclamatory
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Declarative
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.)
Play
Simile
Motif
Science fiction
23. The device in which an author interrupts the story or narrative to go back and explain an earlier event or recall an earlier memory of a character.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Common adjective
Flashback
Type of Lit: Myth
24. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Drama
Type of Lit: Prose
Verbal Irony
25. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Rhyme
Third Person
Setting
26. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
dipthong
grapheme
Indirect presentation
Irony
27. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Initial
Type of Lit: Myth
Rhyme
Literary Selections: Expository
28. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Positive adjective
Article
digraph
Possessive Pronoun
29. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Motif
Subject Pronoun
Future tense
Exclamatory
30. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Hyperbole
Dramatic monologue
Compound adjective
Superlative adjective
31. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Dramatic Irony
Second Person
Common adjective
Demonstrative adjective
32. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Figurative Language
Simple sentences
Type of Lit: Prose
Prepositional phrase
33. 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.
Communication: Encounters
homophone
Imagery
Type of Lit: Short Story
34. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Poetry
Personal Point of View
Initial
affix
35. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Foreshadow
dipthong
Interrogative
Present tense
36. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Direct presentation
Time adverbs
Play
Plot: Inciting force
37. A story written for the purpose of performance
Communication
Alliteration
Present tense
Play
38. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Dialogue
Compound - complex sentences
Type of Lit: Comedy
Predicate adjective
39. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Pronoun
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Imperative
non - fiction
40. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Imagery
Dialogue
Science fiction
Mental Point of View
41. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Indefinite adjective
Physical Point of View
Tone
Developing
42. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Simple sentences
Personal Point of View
Inferences
43. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Proper adjective
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Adverb
44. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Type of Lit: Essay
Literary Selections: Narrative
Type of Lit: Parable
Point of View
45. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
digraph
Type of Lit: Drama
Verbal Irony
Positive adjective
46. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Interjection
digraph
Type of Lit: Comedy
Mood
47. Is a word that names a person - place - thing - concept - idea - act - or characteristic. Nouns give names to everything that exists - has existed - or will exist in the world.
Comparative adverbs
Schema
Literary Selections: Expository
Noun
48. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Play
morpheme
Plot: Climax
Onomatopoeia
49. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Plot
Object Pronoun
Epic
Two - syllable adjective
50. 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.
Communication: Rituals
fiction
Irony
Exaggeration