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Praxis Literature
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1. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
phoneme
Two - syllable adjective
digraph
First Person
2. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
Poetry
Superlative adverbs
Opinion
3. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Physical Point of View
Comparative adjective
Communication: Deviants
Folktales
4. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Deviants
Type of Lit: Realism
Analogy
Noun
5. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Plot: Conflict
Theme
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Critical Analysis
6. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Adverb
Type of Lit: Drama
Plot: Types of Conflict
Realistic fiction
7. 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.
Pronoun
Text - to - world (T- W
Type of Lit: Realism
Metaphor
8. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Irony
Dramatic Irony
Verb
Fantasy
9. 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.)
Singular pronouns
phoneme
Comparative adverbs
Simile
10. Compare 3 or more things.
Superlative adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Subject Pronoun
Comparative adjective
11. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Second Person
Poetry
Science fiction
Communication: Encounters
12. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Positive adverbs
Setting
Realistic fiction
Plot: Climax
13. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Motif
Indefinite adjective
Historical Fiction
Fact
14. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inferences
Literary Selections: Narrative
Historical Fiction
Plural pronouns
15. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Personal Point of View
Irregular adjective
Physical Point of View
Foreshadow
16. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Proper adjective
Fact
Simile
Dialogue
17. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
Mental Point of View
Flashback
non - fiction
18. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Theme
Literary Selections: Narrative
Plot: Rising Action
Inferences
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.
Flashback
Text - to - self (T- S)
Pronoun
Point of View
20. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
digraph
Figurative Language
Plural pronouns
Third Person
21. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Compound sentences
Plot: Climax
Plot: Rising Action
Regular verbs
22. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Degree adverbs
Situational Irony
Plot: Inciting force
Fantasy
23. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Mental Point of View
Rhyme
Type of Lit: Comedy
Compound - complex sentences
24. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Type of Lit: Allegory
Dialogue
Noun
25. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Complex sentences
Indirect presentation
Idiom
Indefinite adjective
26. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Subject Pronoun
Decoding Skills
Degree adverbs
Possessive Pronoun
27. Is a word that names a person - place - thing - concept - idea - act - or characteristic. Nouns give names to everything that exists - has existed - or will exist in the world.
Superlative adverbs
Noun
Exclamatory
Conjunction
28. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Exaggeration
Rhyme
Flashback
Play
29. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Communication
homonym
Theme
Fantasy
30. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Irregular verbs
Plot: Resolution
Mystery
31. 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.
Third Person
Communication: Encounters
Initial
Compound adjective
32. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Demonstrative adjective
Text - to - text (T- T)
Object Pronoun
Pronoun
33. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Conjunction: Subordinating
Autobiography
Schema
Proper adjective
34. 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.
Mystery
Interjection
Foreshadow
Reflection/response
35. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Object Pronoun
Communication
Preposition
fiction
36. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Compound sentences
Dramatic Irony
Figurative Language
Irregular verbs
37. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Schema
Autobiography
Epic
Hyperbole
38. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Conjunction: Subordinating
Text - to - self (T- S)
Compound - complex sentences
39. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Plot: Inciting force
Prepositional phrase
Place adverbs
Irony
40. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Science fiction
Predicate adjective
Communication: Crisis
Two - syllable adjective
41. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Drama
Plural pronouns
Literary Selections: Narrative
42. Compare two things.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Comparative adverbs
Biography
First Person
43. 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
Place adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Direct presentation
44. 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.)
Positive adjective
Predicate adjective
Literary Selections: Expository
Hyperbole
45. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Autobiography
Third Person
Plural pronouns
Compound adjective
46. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Epic
Prepositional phrase
Personal pronouns
Type of Lit: Prose
47. 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.
Common adjective
Communication: Deviants
Irony
First Person
48. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Opinion
Imperative
Comparative adjective
49. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Biography
Plot: Conflict
Pace
phoneme
50. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Conjunction: Correlative
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Parable
Type of Lit: Myth
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