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Praxis Literature
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1. 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
phoneme
Figurative Language
Conjunction: Subordinating
2. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Type of Lit: Myth
Plot
Critical Analysis
Indefinite adjective
3. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Comparative adjective
phoneme
Irregular verbs
4. Shows the action is happening now.
Present tense
Plural pronouns
Motif
Imagery
5. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
Third Person
Time adverbs
Plot: Exposition
6. (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.
Initial
Onomatopoeia
Plot: Exposition
Declarative
7. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Point of View
Indirect presentation
Personification
Preposition
8. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Literary Selections: Expository
Plot: Rising Action
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Realism
9. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inferences
Biography
Personal pronouns
Physical Point of View
10. 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)
Verb
Conjunction: Subordinating
homophone
11. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Theme
Singular pronouns
Hyperbole
Degree adverbs
12. 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.
Verb
Communication: Rituals
Direct presentation
Complex sentences
13. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Conjunction
Setting
Historical Fiction
Exclamatory
14. 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.)
Personification
Communication
Type of Lit: Myth
Initial
15. 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.
Science fiction
Indefinite adjective
Decoding Skills
Foreshadow
16. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Developing
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Conjunction: Correlative
Past tense
17. 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.
Type of Lit: Prose
First Person
fiction
Degree adverbs
18. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Type of Lit: Essay
Irregular adjective
non - fiction
Plot: Types of Conflict
19. 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.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Pronoun
Dramatic monologue
20. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Superlative adjective
Communication: Crisis
Two - syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Drama
21. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Declarative
Imperative
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Direct presentation
22. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Poetry
Type of Lit: Parable
Play
Mystery
23. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Irregular verbs
Symbol
Dialogue
Conjunction: Correlative
24. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Schema
Past tense
Tone
Text - to - self (T- S)
25. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Superlative adjective
digraph
Type of Lit: Novel
Imperative
26. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Personal pronouns
Object Pronoun
Conjunction
Physical Point of View
27. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
digraph
Imperative
Common adjective
Conjunction
28. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Object Pronoun
Schema
Communication
Foreshadow
29. A narrative that can be read in one sitting. Has few characters and often one conflict. Characters go through some type of change by the end of the story.
Two - syllable adjective
Alliteration
Positive adjective
Type of Lit: Short Story
30. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Schema
Simple sentences
Text - to - self (T- S)
Developing
31. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Direct presentation
Imperative
Type of Lit: Novel
Autobiography
32. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Pace
Onomatopoeia
Type of Lit: Prose
Flashback
33. 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.)
Verbal Irony
Metaphor
Time adverbs
Personification
34. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Degree adverbs
Physical Point of View
Comparative adjective
Plot: Types of Conflict
35. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Compound - complex sentences
Hyperbole
dipthong
Rhyme
36. 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.
Personal pronouns
Third Person
Type of Lit: Prose
Conjunction: Subordinating
37. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Fantasy
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Myth
Verbal Irony
38. 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.
non - fiction
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Metaphor
Indefinite adjective
39. 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
Adverb
Developing
Plot: Types of Conflict
Text - to - world (T- W
40. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Singular pronouns
Personification
Second Person
Positive adjective
41. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Decoding Skills
Simile
Type of Lit: Parable
Conjunction
42. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Theme
Onomatopoeia
Metaphor
Article
43. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Alliteration
Plural pronouns
Inferences
Plot: Climax
44. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Direct presentation
Type of Lit: Realism
Situational Irony
homophone
45. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Plural pronouns
Schema
Type of Lit: Short Story
Dramatic monologue
46. 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
Second Person
Proper adjective
Verb
47. Restating in different words
Indirect presentation
Literary elements
Paraphrase
Communication: Encounters
48. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Complex sentences
dipthong
Analogy
Superlative adverbs
49. 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.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Alliteration
Symbol
Text - to - text (T- T)
50. Express one complete thought.
Future tense
digraph
Simple sentences
Article
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