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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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1. 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.)
Plot: Conflict
Folktales
Type of Lit: Short Story
Idiom
2. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Personal Point of View
Mood
Fact
Dramatic monologue
3. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Compound adjective
Declarative
Prepositional phrase
4. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Theme
Pronoun
Biography
5. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Theme
Positive adjective
Exclamatory
Third Person
6. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Demonstrative adjective
Literary Selections: Expository
Prepositional phrase
digraph
7. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Personal pronouns
Plural pronouns
Mystery
Compound sentences
8. About someone's life (written by another person)
Biography
Type of Lit: Short Story
Plot: Types of Conflict
Foreshadow
9. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Superlative adverbs
morpheme
Literary elements
Realistic fiction
10. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Communication
Personal pronouns
Object Pronoun
Place adverbs
11. 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)
Plot: Climax
Declarative
Compound sentences
dipthong
12. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Hyperbole
fiction
Reflection/response
Interrogative
13. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Exclamatory
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Novel
Dramatic monologue
14. 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: Drama
Fantasy
Compound adjective
15. 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).
Physical Point of View
homophone
Literary Selections: Narrative
Present tense
16. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Initial
Conjunction
Subject Pronoun
Type of Lit: Prose
17. 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.
Personification
First Person
Text - to - text (T- T)
Present tense
18. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Type of Lit: Essay
Mystery
Alliteration
Indirect presentation
19. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Simile
Dramatic monologue
non - fiction
Article
20. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Plot: Rising Action
Interjection
Folktales
Compound - complex sentences
21. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Prose
Plot: Falling action
Exaggeration
Fantasy
22. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Manner adverbs
Inferences
Text - to - text (T- T)
Critical Analysis
23. 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.
Personal Point of View
Imagery
Paraphrase
Hyperbole
24. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Communication
Pace
Type of Lit: Short Story
Opinion
25. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Dramatic Irony
morpheme
Motif
Opinion
26. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Dramatic monologue
Object Pronoun
Personal Point of View
Text - to - text (T- T)
27. (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.
Setting
fiction
Developing
Metaphor
28. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Text - to - world (T- W
Adjective
Second Person
Conjunction: Correlative
29. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Setting
Schema
Type of Lit: Comedy
Type of Lit: Prose
30. 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.)
fiction
Metaphor
Text - to - world (T- W
Plot: Exposition
31. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Plural pronouns
affix
Exaggeration
Plot: Falling action
32. 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.)
Alliteration
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Type of Lit: Drama
Plot: Climax
33. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Initial
phoneme
Communication: Deviants
Communication: Crisis
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.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Compound - complex sentences
Personal pronouns
First Person
35. 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
Degree adverbs
Analogy
Type of Lit: Fable
Oxymoron
36. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Superlative adjective
Imperative
Noun
Indirect presentation
37. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Communication: Crisis
Possessive Pronoun
grapheme
non - fiction
38. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Pronoun
Plot
Text - to - self (T- S)
39. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
non - fiction
Subject Pronoun
Type of Lit: Allegory
Regular verbs
40. When the author says one thing and means something else
Verbal Irony
Superlative adjective
Interjection
Initial
41. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Two - syllable adjective
Predicate adjective
Reflection/response
Possessive Pronoun
42. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Preposition
Conjunction: Subordinating
Folktales
Type of Lit: Prose
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.
Paraphrase
Irony
Declarative
Text - to - world (T- W
44. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Three (or more) syllable adjective
digraph
Common adjective
45. 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.
Communication: Rituals
Superlative adverbs
grapheme
Place adverbs
46. 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.
Flashback
Type of Lit: Allegory
Type of Lit: Essay
Literary Selections: Expository
47. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Type of Lit: Essay
Direct presentation
Plot
Theme
48. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
Initial
Interrogative
Irony
49. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Comparative adverbs
Plural pronouns
Exclamatory
Communication
50. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Motif
Type of Lit: Novel
Text - to - text (T- T)
Hyperbole