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Praxis Literature
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1. Shows the action is happening now.
Historical Fiction
Poetry
Conjunction: Correlative
Present tense
2. 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.
Communication: Encounters
Verbal Irony
Direct presentation
Third Person
3. 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.)
Prepositional phrase
Superlative adjective
Metaphor
homophone
4. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Rhyme
Present tense
Folktales
Simple sentences
5. Compare two things.
Exaggeration
Mood
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Comparative adverbs
6. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Demonstrative adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
Object Pronoun
Motif
7. 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)
Developing
Communication: Crisis
Irregular verbs
8. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Imperative
Type of Lit: Drama
Preposition
Text - to - world (T- W
9. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
affix
Superlative adverbs
Indirect presentation
Conjunction: Correlative
10. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Time adverbs
Plot: Inciting force
Theme
Plural pronouns
11. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Decoding Skills
Regular verbs
homophone
Symbol
12. 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
Mood
morpheme
Alliteration
Oxymoron
13. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Symbol
Communication: Crisis
Noun
14. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Type of Lit: Realism
Conjunction
Type of Lit: Short Story
Mood
15. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Theme
Pronoun
Oxymoron
morpheme
16. 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.)
Hyperbole
Type of Lit: Allegory
Symbol
Simile
17. 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
Reflection/response
Historical Fiction
Folktales
18. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Flashback
Personal pronouns
Indirect presentation
Positive adverbs
19. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Comparative adverbs
Literary elements
Conjunction
Interjection
20. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Positive adjective
Situational Irony
Figurative Language
Metaphor
21. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Dramatic monologue
Conjunction: Correlative
Predicate adjective
Poetry
22. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Mystery
Metaphor
homophone
Dramatic Irony
23. The author tells the story from an outside voice. The narrator is not one of the characters in the story but informs the reader about the characters.
Type of Lit: Prose
Plot: Conflict
Singular pronouns
Third Person
24. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Pronoun
Text - to - text (T- T)
digraph
Complex sentences
25. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Singular pronouns
Preposition
grapheme
Compound - complex sentences
26. 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: Short Story
Analogy
Adverb
Object Pronoun
27. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Epic
Type of Lit: Prose
Past tense
Situational Irony
28. (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.
Alliteration
Type of Lit: Short Story
Initial
Dramatic Irony
29. (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.
Plural pronouns
Reflection/response
Tone
Flashback
30. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Historical Fiction
Exaggeration
Personification
Plot: Exposition
31. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Conjunction
Imperative
Verb
Alliteration
32. 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).
Comparative adverbs
Plural pronouns
homophone
Indefinite adjective
33. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Plot: Inciting force
Interrogative
Plural pronouns
Proper adjective
34. 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
Direct presentation
Subject Pronoun
Hyperbole
35. 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.
Second Person
Exaggeration
Fantasy
Type of Lit: Essay
36. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Degree adverbs
Setting
Article
Onomatopoeia
37. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Object Pronoun
Compound adjective
Plot
Type of Lit: Drama
38. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Opinion
Present tense
Dramatic monologue
Predicate adjective
39. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory
Noun
Type of Lit: Myth
Rhyme
40. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Plot: Inciting force
Mental Point of View
Positive adjective
Figurative Language
41. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Complex sentences
Exclamatory
Plot: Falling action
Physical Point of View
42. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Oxymoron
Simple sentences
Third Person
43. 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.
dipthong
Literary Selections: Narrative
Metaphor
Literary elements
44. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Onomatopoeia
homonym
homophone
Literary elements
45. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Symbol
Figurative Language
Mental Point of View
Conjunction: Coordinating
46. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Analogy
Point of View
Possessive Pronoun
Object Pronoun
47. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Literary elements
affix
Compound sentences
Exaggeration
48. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Predicate adjective
Developing
Situational Irony
Type of Lit: Tragedy
49. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
Text - to - world (T- W
Past tense
Opinion
50. 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.
Declarative
First Person
Reflection/response
homophone
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