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Praxis Literature
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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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1. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Plot: Resolution
Verbal Irony
Developing
Positive adjective
2. 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.
Biography
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Short Story
Schema
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.)
Pace
Plot: Falling action
Plot: Conflict
Metaphor
4. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Biography
Type of Lit: Novel
Direct presentation
Present tense
5. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Personal pronouns
Proper adjective
Subject Pronoun
Mystery
6. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
phoneme
Time adverbs
Developing
Idiom
7. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Rhyme
fiction
Simple sentences
Developing
8. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Rising Action
Science fiction
Declarative
Foreshadow
9. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Object Pronoun
Regular verbs
Point of View
Onomatopoeia
10. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Type of Lit: Myth
Prepositional phrase
grapheme
Object Pronoun
11. 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)
Onomatopoeia
Autobiography
Comparative adjective
Conjunction: Subordinating
12. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Situational Irony
Onomatopoeia
Literary Selections: Expository
Exaggeration
13. 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.
Symbol
Foreshadow
Future tense
Setting
14. 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.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Interrogative
Flashback
Plot: Climax
15. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Adverb
Figurative Language
Literary Selections: Expository
Proper adjective
16. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Irregular verbs
Dramatic Irony
Motif
Prepositional phrase
17. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Dramatic monologue
homonym
Plot: Rising Action
Superlative adjective
18. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Proper adjective
Pace
Exaggeration
Indefinite adjective
19. 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
Rhyme
Irony
Possessive Pronoun
20. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Interjection
Adverb
Critical Analysis
Foreshadow
21. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Dramatic Irony
Degree adverbs
Motif
Plot: Conflict
22. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Reflection/response
Interjection
non - fiction
Communication: Deviants
23. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inferences
Noun
Irony
Type of Lit: Parable
24. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Plot: Inciting force
Interjection
Complex sentences
Autobiography
25. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Type of Lit: Realism
Poetry
Interrogative
Demonstrative adjective
26. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Two - syllable adjective
Comparative adjective
Common adjective
Schema
27. 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
Noun
Plot: Types of Conflict
Metaphor
Positive adjective
28. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Plot: Falling action
Pace
Plot: Climax
Plot: Resolution
29. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Schema
Communication
Type of Lit: Parable
Adjective
30. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Subject Pronoun
Comparative adverbs
Singular pronouns
Schema
31. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Text - to - world (T- W
Superlative adjective
Tone
homonym
32. 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.)
Figurative Language
Present tense
Personification
Plot: Conflict
33. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Parable
Flashback
Setting
34. 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.)
Simile
homonym
Superlative adjective
Place adverbs
35. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Plot: Conflict
Verb
Plot: Inciting force
Paraphrase
36. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
non - fiction
Interjection
Positive adverbs
Dialogue
37. 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)
Preposition
Type of Lit: Parable
dipthong
Communication: Encounters
38. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Predicate adjective
Interrogative
Adverb
Third Person
39. (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.
Simile
Possessive Pronoun
Positive adjective
Initial
40. 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
Biography
Foreshadow
Oxymoron
Past tense
41. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Superlative adverbs
Symbol
Epic
Folktales
42. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Mystery
Personal Point of View
Opinion
Adverb
43. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Poetry
Opinion
Past tense
Adverb
44. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Plot: Rising Action
Critical Analysis
Common adjective
Irregular verbs
45. (extending stage) Reader delves into the text - using background knowledge to build an understanding of the literary piece with new information being absorbed and used to ask questions.
Future tense
Motif
Developing
Simile
46. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Initial
Conjunction: Subordinating
Opinion
47. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Fantasy
Idiom
Mental Point of View
Physical Point of View
48. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Degree adverbs
Plural pronouns
Developing
Point of View
49. 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.
Literary Selections: Narrative
Simple sentences
Irony
Paraphrase
50. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Literary Selections: Expository
fiction
Realistic fiction
Two - syllable adjective