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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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1. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Compound - complex sentences
Dialogue
Rhyme
Positive adjective
2. 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.)
Personal Point of View
homophone
Alliteration
Preposition
3. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Plot: Resolution
Type of Lit: Essay
Personal Point of View
Initial
4. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Inferences
Setting
Imperative
Object Pronoun
5. 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)
Third Person
Onomatopoeia
Personal pronouns
Dramatic monologue
6. 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.
Imperative
Text - to - world (T- W
Initial
Theme
7. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Superlative adjective
First Person
Historical Fiction
Compound sentences
8. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Adjective
Folktales
Verb
Time adverbs
9. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Tone
Adjective
Foreshadow
homophone
10. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Type of Lit: Comedy
Foreshadow
Communication
Plot: Exposition
11. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Verb
Mental Point of View
Developing
12. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Declarative
Communication: Rituals
Literary elements
Type of Lit: Essay
13. 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.
Predicate adjective
dipthong
Time adverbs
Mystery
14. 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.
Interjection
Manner adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
Irregular adjective
15. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Poetry
Pronoun
Fantasy
Imagery
16. 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.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Declarative
Verbal Irony
Type of Lit: Short Story
17. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
grapheme
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Fable
Communication: Crisis
18. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Degree adverbs
Setting
Type of Lit: Novel
Type of Lit: Short Story
19. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Paraphrase
Complex sentences
Mood
Communication: Encounters
20. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
digraph
Mood
fiction
Common adjective
21. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Common adjective
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Allegory
22. 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.
Interrogative
Opinion
Type of Lit: Parable
Third Person
23. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Plot
Article
Onomatopoeia
Analogy
24. 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.)
Conjunction: Correlative
Verbal Irony
Simile
Compound adjective
25. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Regular verbs
Direct presentation
Type of Lit: Drama
Positive adverbs
26. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Positive adjective
Personal pronouns
Direct presentation
Text - to - self (T- S)
27. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Fable
Mystery
Adverb
28. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Personification
Type of Lit: Prose
Communication: Deviants
29. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
phoneme
Third Person
Situational Irony
Future tense
30. 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.
Literary Selections: Expository
Rhyme
Imagery
Personal pronouns
31. (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.
Adverb
Developing
Communication: Rituals
Science fiction
32. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Degree adverbs
Mental Point of View
Text - to - self (T- S)
Realistic fiction
33. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Plot: Falling action
Communication: Rituals
Inferences
Place adverbs
34. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Theme
Symbol
Compound sentences
Figurative Language
35. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Object Pronoun
Inferences
Idiom
Pace
36. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
phoneme
Dialogue
Plot: Climax
Future tense
37. Compare two things.
Comparative adverbs
Biography
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Parable
38. A story written for the purpose of performance
Symbol
Theme
Verbal Irony
Play
39. 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
Interrogative
Verb
Pronoun
40. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Compound - complex sentences
Dramatic monologue
Plot: Falling action
digraph
41. (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.
Reflection/response
Compound - complex sentences
Idiom
Alliteration
42. (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.
Science fiction
Plot: Inciting force
Complex sentences
Initial
43. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
fiction
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Prose
Tone
44. 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
Degree adverbs
Communication: Deviants
Play
Plot: Types of Conflict
45. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Plural pronouns
Epic
Superlative adjective
Manner adverbs
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.
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Prose
Type of Lit: Myth
Second Person
47. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Theme
Future tense
Opinion
Science fiction
48. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
homonym
Positive adverbs
Superlative adjective
Type of Lit: Short Story
49. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Critical Analysis
Compound - complex sentences
Epic
Symbol
50. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Text - to - self (T- S)
Type of Lit: Parable
Paraphrase
Hyperbole