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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 background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Plot: Conflict
Adjective
Developing
Schema
2. 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.
Inferences
Common adjective
Noun
homonym
3. Compare 3 or more things.
Preposition
Possessive Pronoun
Superlative adverbs
Science fiction
4. 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
Pronoun
Poetry
Alliteration
5. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Pronoun
Personal Point of View
Exclamatory
Plot: Rising Action
6. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Text - to - self (T- S)
Interjection
Singular pronouns
Manner adverbs
7. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Symbol
Simile
Type of Lit: Tragedy
phoneme
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
Motif
phoneme
Plot: Exposition
9. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Fantasy
phoneme
Irregular adjective
Degree adverbs
10. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
morpheme
Mystery
Verbal Irony
digraph
11. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Poetry
Rhyme
Simile
Dramatic monologue
12. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Poetry
Personification
Theme
Prepositional phrase
13. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Opinion
Past tense
Theme
Possessive Pronoun
14. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Folktales
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Novel
Adjective
15. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Theme
Fantasy
Mental Point of View
Communication: Deviants
16. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Analogy
Historical Fiction
Fact
non - fiction
17. 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.
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Short Story
Indefinite adjective
Predicate adjective
18. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Type of Lit: Parable
Past tense
Pace
Compound adjective
19. 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).
Adjective
Singular pronouns
Text - to - self (T- S)
homophone
20. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Compound sentences
Complex sentences
Preposition
Compound - complex sentences
21. A non - fiction piece that is often short and used to express the writer's opinion about a topic or to share information on a subject.
Initial
Paraphrase
Mystery
Type of Lit: Essay
22. (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.
Developing
Adverb
Second Person
Conjunction: Subordinating
23. Express one complete thought.
Simple sentences
Text - to - self (T- S)
Conjunction: Coordinating
Common adjective
24. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Preposition
Metaphor
Interjection
Degree adverbs
25. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Future tense
Point of View
Two - syllable adjective
Exclamatory
26. Main problem in the story.
Foreshadow
Plot: Conflict
Verbal Irony
Fact
27. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Type of Lit: Drama
Decoding Skills
Compound - complex sentences
Subject Pronoun
28. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Conjunction: Coordinating
Positive adjective
Positive adverbs
29. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Fact
Direct presentation
Personal Point of View
Declarative
30. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Degree adverbs
Plot: Falling action
Dramatic monologue
Time adverbs
31. (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.
Plot
Reflection/response
Setting
Communication: Crisis
32. 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.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Second Person
Type of Lit: Allegory
non - fiction
33. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Irregular adjective
Pronoun
Literary Selections: Expository
Type of Lit: Novel
34. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Compound adjective
Predicate adjective
Plot: Climax
Motif
35. Shows the action is happening now.
Developing
Personal Point of View
affix
Present tense
36. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Type of Lit: Drama
Plural pronouns
Epic
Place adverbs
37. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Conjunction: Correlative
Play
Plot: Resolution
Adverb
38. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Comparative adverbs
Metaphor
Conjunction: Subordinating
Decoding Skills
39. A narrative is a constructive format (as a work of speech - writing - song - film - television - video games - photography or theatre) that describes a sequence of non - fictional or fictional events.
Positive adjective
Situational Irony
Poetry
Literary Selections: Narrative
40. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Myth
Adverb
Simile
41. About someone's life (written by another person)
Irregular adjective
Biography
Noun
Situational Irony
42. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
grapheme
Preposition
Play
Comparative adjective
43. 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.
Positive adverbs
Initial
Text - to - world (T- W
Positive adjective
44. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Personification
digraph
Irregular verbs
phoneme
45. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Type of Lit: Fable
Initial
Analogy
homophone
46. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Two - syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
Compound adjective
Exaggeration
47. 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.
Communication: Deviants
homonym
Literary elements
Imagery
48. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Proper adjective
Fantasy
Singular pronouns
Comparative adjective
49. Daily communications that happen as people interact with one another in their common environment. These relations may occur in the home - at work - in school - in the community - or on the computer.
Onomatopoeia
Communication: Encounters
fiction
Subject Pronoun
50. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Declarative
Prepositional phrase
Plot: Climax
Personal pronouns