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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. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Pace
Verb
Irony
Interrogative
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.
Figurative Language
Communication: Rituals
Type of Lit: Short Story
Pace
3. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Mood
Paraphrase
Type of Lit: Fable
Indefinite adjective
4. (construction stage) Reader has contact with content - structure - genre - and the language of the text - using prior knowledge to build an understanding of the elements.
Indefinite adjective
Initial
Irregular adjective
Simple sentences
5. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Prose
Verb
Type of Lit: Drama
Degree adverbs
6. 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.
Analogy
Flashback
Plot: Falling action
Conjunction: Correlative
7. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Simple sentences
Communication: Deviants
Compound adjective
Adverb
8. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Novel
Reflection/response
Indefinite adjective
9. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Point of View
Proper adjective
Object Pronoun
Initial
10. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Plot: Climax
Literary Selections: Expository
digraph
Communication
11. 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.
Mental Point of View
Pronoun
Conjunction: Coordinating
Dramatic Irony
12. (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.
Critical Analysis
Preposition
Reflection/response
Literary elements
13. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Subject Pronoun
Situational Irony
Mystery
Superlative adverbs
14. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Past tense
Idiom
Imagery
Type of Lit: Parable
15. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
digraph
Autobiography
Personal Point of View
Plot: Inciting force
16. Connection is defined as the comparison between what is currently being read to that of other literary works that have been read in the past.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Past tense
Place adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
17. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Adjective
Pace
Second Person
digraph
18. 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: Parable
Degree adverbs
Analogy
phoneme
19. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Type of Lit: Fable
Poetry
Plot: Types of Conflict
Analogy
20. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Poetry
Type of Lit: Comedy
Regular verbs
Place adverbs
21. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Positive adjective
Science fiction
fiction
Autobiography
22. 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.
Foreshadow
Communication: Encounters
Verb
Adjective
23. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Conjunction: Correlative
Compound - complex sentences
Point of View
Three (or more) syllable adjective
24. 2 vowels in which the sound begins at the first vowel and moves toward the sound of the second vowel. (Ex. snout=ou - boy=oy)
Reflection/response
Degree adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
dipthong
25. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Type of Lit: Essay
First Person
Literary Selections: Expository
Literary Selections: Narrative
26. A figure of speech used as a comparison of two unrelated objects - concepts - or ideas without using the words like or as. (Ex. The girl was a hog when it came to ice cream.)
Tone
Type of Lit: Myth
Metaphor
Plot: Types of Conflict
27. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Exposition
Compound adjective
Plot: Rising Action
Communication
28. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Possessive Pronoun
Foreshadow
Comparative adjective
Indefinite adjective
29. 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.)
Type of Lit: Novel
Comparative adverbs
Simile
Communication: Rituals
30. 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.
Text - to - self (T- S)
Personification
First Person
Metaphor
31. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Plural pronouns
Biography
Oxymoron
Rhyme
32. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Communication
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Allegory
Exaggeration
33. 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)
Folktales
Onomatopoeia
Dramatic Irony
Plot: Falling action
34. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Manner adverbs
dipthong
Irregular verbs
Personal Point of View
35. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Compound adjective
Indirect presentation
Interrogative
36. 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).
Hyperbole
homophone
First Person
Historical Fiction
37. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
Direct presentation
Text - to - text (T- T)
Positive adverbs
38. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Autobiography
Conjunction: Subordinating
Critical Analysis
Plural pronouns
39. About someone's life (written by another person)
Figurative Language
Biography
Epic
Analogy
40. 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.
Declarative
Literary Selections: Narrative
Manner adverbs
Historical Fiction
41. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Plot
Exclamatory
Personification
Plural pronouns
42. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Object Pronoun
Plot: Climax
Literary elements
Prepositional phrase
43. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Type of Lit: Realism
Physical Point of View
Hyperbole
Plot: Inciting force
44. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Preposition
Foreshadow
Verb
Plot: Climax
45. Compare two things.
Plot: Inciting force
Comparative adverbs
Historical Fiction
Time adverbs
46. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Onomatopoeia
Two - syllable adjective
Compound adjective
Simile
47. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Complex sentences
Situational Irony
Irregular adjective
Direct presentation
48. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Simple sentences
Text - to - text (T- T)
Realistic fiction
Plot: Conflict
49. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Communication: Rituals
Opinion
Text - to - world (T- W
Type of Lit: Fable
50. 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.
Text - to - world (T- W
Communication
Foreshadow
Predicate adjective