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Praxis Literature
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1. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Adjective
Dramatic monologue
Mental Point of View
Irregular adjective
2. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Historical Fiction
Point of View
Science fiction
Literary Selections: Expository
3. 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
Conjunction: Coordinating
Plot: Rising Action
Inferences
4. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Parable
Type of Lit: Realism
Mood
5. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Plural pronouns
grapheme
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Third Person
6. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Predicate adjective
Singular pronouns
First Person
Motif
7. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Fable
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Reflection/response
8. 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.
Declarative
Dialogue
Third Person
Inferences
9. (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.
Science fiction
Fantasy
Type of Lit: Novel
Reflection/response
10. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Noun
Irregular verbs
Oxymoron
Indirect presentation
11. 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.)
Hyperbole
Plot: Types of Conflict
Communication: Deviants
Imperative
12. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Type of Lit: Novel
Personal Point of View
Indefinite adjective
Poetry
13. 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.)
Realistic fiction
Type of Lit: Essay
Idiom
Flashback
14. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Third Person
Pace
Literary Selections: Expository
Type of Lit: Allegory
15. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Oxymoron
Predicate adjective
Plot: Climax
16. When a conjunction joins a word to a word - a phrase to a phrase - or a clause to a clause; the words or phrases or clauses joined must be equal or of the same type.
Compound - complex sentences
Conjunction: Coordinating
Inferences
Fantasy
17. Compare two things.
Situational Irony
Type of Lit: Myth
Conjunction
Comparative adverbs
18. 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
Verb
Plural pronouns
Verbal Irony
19. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Text - to - world (T- W
Initial
Realistic fiction
20. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Realistic fiction
Type of Lit: Drama
Adverb
Metaphor
21. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
fiction
Historical Fiction
Interjection
Communication: Rituals
22. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
Type of Lit: Novel
Analogy
Direct presentation
23. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Type of Lit: Short Story
affix
Type of Lit: Novel
Predicate adjective
24. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Superlative adjective
Figurative Language
Type of Lit: Short Story
25. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Literary Selections: Expository
fiction
Fact
Communication: Encounters
26. 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)
Second Person
Indirect presentation
dipthong
Plot: Rising Action
27. 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.)
Text - to - text (T- T)
Regular verbs
Simile
Irregular verbs
28. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Second Person
Historical Fiction
Text - to - self (T- S)
Declarative
29. 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.
Superlative adjective
Tone
Mystery
Literary Selections: Narrative
30. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Type of Lit: Essay
Article
Dramatic Irony
Fantasy
31. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Personal Point of View
Direct presentation
Paraphrase
Pace
32. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Possessive Pronoun
Foreshadow
Rhyme
Mental Point of View
33. 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.
Third Person
Conjunction
Imagery
Pronoun
34. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Positive adjective
Type of Lit: Novel
Plot: Types of Conflict
Adverb
35. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Type of Lit: Drama
Type of Lit: Prose
Exclamatory
Type of Lit: Tragedy
36. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Deviants
Mood
Communication: Encounters
Dialogue
37. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Future tense
Opinion
Irregular adjective
Prepositional phrase
38. 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.)
Poetry
Reflection/response
Metaphor
Place adverbs
39. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Subject Pronoun
Type of Lit: Fable
Possessive Pronoun
Literary Selections: Expository
40. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Indefinite adjective
Type of Lit: Realism
Mental Point of View
41. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Critical Analysis
Plot
Article
Flashback
42. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Flashback
homonym
Hyperbole
Manner adverbs
43. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Fact
Decoding Skills
Realistic fiction
Past tense
44. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Complex sentences
dipthong
Schema
Positive adverbs
45. 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).
Analogy
homophone
Opinion
Mystery
46. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Verbal Irony
Figurative Language
Predicate adjective
Reflection/response
47. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Imagery
Theme
Opinion
Prepositional phrase
48. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Compound - complex sentences
Imperative
Physical Point of View
Prepositional phrase
49. 1. Man vs. Man - One person is against another.2. Man vs. Nature - A person(s) battles with forces of nature.3. Man vs. Society - Societal values (customs) are challenged by person(s).4. Man vs. Self - Internal struggles - or test of values of a char
Article
Literary Selections: Narrative
Adjective
Plot: Types of Conflict
50. Compare 3 or more things.
Onomatopoeia
Superlative adverbs
Communication: Rituals
Pronoun
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