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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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).
Compound sentences
homophone
Situational Irony
Type of Lit: Fable
2. 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.)
Adverb
Idiom
Onomatopoeia
Verb
3. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Past tense
Type of Lit: Drama
Prepositional phrase
4. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Setting
Critical Analysis
Declarative
Dramatic monologue
5. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Comparative adjective
Noun
Text - to - world (T- W
Plot: Types of Conflict
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.
Flashback
Plot: Falling action
Plot: Rising Action
Compound - complex sentences
7. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Realistic fiction
Motif
non - fiction
Reflection/response
8. 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
Adjective
Second Person
Positive adverbs
9. 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.)
Inferences
Realistic fiction
Regular verbs
Metaphor
10. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Compound sentences
Figurative Language
Communication: Crisis
Developing
11. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Text - to - self (T- S)
Analogy
Dramatic monologue
Setting
12. Express one complete thought.
Type of Lit: Myth
Two - syllable adjective
Imagery
Simple sentences
13. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
affix
Type of Lit: Parable
Point of View
Irregular verbs
14. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Present tense
grapheme
Text - to - self (T- S)
Irregular adjective
15. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Preposition
Foreshadow
Present tense
Plot: Exposition
16. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Imagery
Past tense
Onomatopoeia
Demonstrative adjective
17. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
morpheme
Science fiction
Oxymoron
Future tense
18. The use of descriptive works in such a way as to give human characteristics to a nonhuman thing such as an object - idea or animal. (Ex. The dog danced with joy when she was given a bone.)
Superlative adjective
Developing
dipthong
Personification
19. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Indirect presentation
Demonstrative adjective
Interrogative
Second Person
20. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Article
Interrogative
Irony
21. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Superlative adjective
Text - to - world (T- W
Positive adjective
Singular pronouns
22. 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)
Simile
Onomatopoeia
Communication: Rituals
Play
23. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
homophone
Alliteration
Singular pronouns
Metaphor
24. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Declarative
Epic
Preposition
Literary Selections: Narrative
25. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Plot: Exposition
Flashback
Dramatic Irony
Text - to - self (T- S)
26. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Epic
Type of Lit: Prose
Mystery
Degree adverbs
27. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Complex sentences
Metaphor
Plot: Resolution
Simple sentences
28. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Situational Irony
Present tense
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Direct presentation
29. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Irregular adjective
Plot
Conjunction
Past tense
30. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
phoneme
Text - to - world (T- W
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Prepositional phrase
31. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
digraph
Adverb
fiction
Preposition
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.)
homonym
Alliteration
Article
Plot: Rising Action
33. A literary work in which there is a downfall of the hero due to a tragic flaw or personal characteristic: often ends with an unhappy ending.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Proper adjective
Object Pronoun
Interjection
34. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Literary Selections: Expository
Object Pronoun
Interjection
Foreshadow
35. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Verbal Irony
Inferences
Analogy
Plot: Exposition
36. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Point of View
Adjective
Type of Lit: Allegory
Initial
37. 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.
Prepositional phrase
Communication: Rituals
Communication: Deviants
Imagery
38. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Symbol
Science fiction
Point of View
Plot
39. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Adverb
Conjunction: Subordinating
Dramatic monologue
Three (or more) syllable adjective
40. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Manner adverbs
Dramatic monologue
Present tense
Complex sentences
41. 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
Biography
Literary Selections: Expository
Demonstrative adjective
42. When the author says one thing and means something else
Epic
Verbal Irony
Irregular adjective
Situational Irony
43. 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.
Superlative adverbs
Mental Point of View
Second Person
Direct presentation
44. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Folktales
Positive adjective
phoneme
Preposition
45. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Type of Lit: Parable
Oxymoron
Symbol
46. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Type of Lit: Allegory
Type of Lit: Novel
Exclamatory
Realistic fiction
47. Compare two things.
Comparative adverbs
Type of Lit: Novel
Plot: Resolution
Initial
48. An exaggeration or use of a statement that enhances the effects of the words - which may or may not be realistic. (Ex. It was such a hot summer that even the cactus was sweating.)
Superlative adverbs
Hyperbole
Dramatic monologue
Type of Lit: Realism
49. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Prose
Singular pronouns
Future tense
Superlative adverbs
50. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Plot: Conflict
Point of View
homophone
Physical Point of View