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Praxis Literature
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Subjects
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Plural pronouns
Positive adverbs
Flashback
Epic
2. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Text - to - world (T- W
Conjunction: Coordinating
Second Person
3. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Text - to - self (T- S)
Type of Lit: Drama
Developing
4. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Communication: Rituals
Regular verbs
digraph
Tone
5. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Indefinite adjective
Third Person
Physical Point of View
Foreshadow
6. Compare 3 or more things.
Superlative adverbs
dipthong
Dramatic Irony
Tone
7. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Metaphor
Text - to - world (T- W
Possessive Pronoun
Direct presentation
8. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Opinion
Indirect presentation
Decoding Skills
Comparative adjective
9. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Declarative
Situational Irony
Two - syllable adjective
Common adjective
10. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Irony
Indirect presentation
Positive adverbs
Conjunction: Coordinating
11. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Epic
Text - to - text (T- T)
Plural pronouns
Direct presentation
12. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Mood
Mental Point of View
Communication: Deviants
13. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Conjunction: Coordinating
Type of Lit: Comedy
Figurative Language
14. 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.
Time adverbs
phoneme
Irony
Personification
15. Attachment to a base or root word.
Interrogative
dipthong
Type of Lit: Realism
affix
16. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Pace
Plot: Resolution
Hyperbole
Plural pronouns
17. 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.
Mood
Common adjective
Noun
Opinion
18. (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
Third Person
homophone
non - fiction
19. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Literary Selections: Expository
Personification
Two - syllable adjective
Plot: Resolution
20. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Initial
Plot: Climax
Dramatic Irony
Dramatic monologue
21. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
non - fiction
Autobiography
Dialogue
Science fiction
22. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Interjection
Folktales
Conjunction: Correlative
Plot: Types of Conflict
23. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Simile
Irregular verbs
Communication
Adjective
24. 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
Oxymoron
Pronoun
fiction
Irregular adjective
25. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Type of Lit: Parable
Interjection
Type of Lit: Comedy
Noun
26. 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.
Communication: Rituals
Conjunction: Subordinating
Conjunction: Coordinating
Personal Point of View
27. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Onomatopoeia
Folktales
phoneme
Theme
28. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Subject Pronoun
Physical Point of View
Interrogative
Fact
29. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Literary elements
Complex sentences
Inferences
Biography
30. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Autobiography
Type of Lit: Essay
Dramatic Irony
Irregular verbs
31. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Plot: Exposition
Schema
Literary Selections: Expository
Interrogative
32. Express one complete thought.
Type of Lit: Prose
Place adverbs
Simple sentences
Text - to - self (T- S)
33. 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
Historical Fiction
Flashback
Type of Lit: Realism
Plot: Types of Conflict
34. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Comparative adjective
Literary Selections: Narrative
First Person
Type of Lit: Parable
35. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Biography
Theme
Demonstrative adjective
Indefinite adjective
36. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Mental Point of View
Manner adverbs
Conjunction
Dramatic monologue
37. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
morpheme
Simple sentences
Adverb
Personal pronouns
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.)
Compound - complex sentences
Metaphor
Rhyme
Oxymoron
39. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Symbol
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Prose
Type of Lit: Essay
40. A story that was created to explain some natural force of nature - religious belief - or social phenomenon. The gods and goddesses have supernatural powers but the human characters often do not.
Personification
Plot: Types of Conflict
Type of Lit: Myth
Fact
41. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Mystery
Type of Lit: Fable
Type of Lit: Essay
Text - to - world (T- W
42. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Foreshadow
Exaggeration
fiction
Realistic fiction
43. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Literary Selections: Narrative
Plural pronouns
Analogy
Plot: Climax
44. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Irregular adjective
Initial
Two - syllable adjective
Conjunction: Correlative
45. Main problem in the story.
digraph
Type of Lit: Realism
Plot: Conflict
Adjective
46. 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
Literary elements
Two - syllable adjective
Interjection
47. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Literary Selections: Expository
Compound adjective
Tone
Motif
48. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Manner adverbs
Compound adjective
Paraphrase
Type of Lit: Realism
49. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Mystery
Situational Irony
Plot: Falling action
Inferences
50. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
digraph
Exaggeration
Plot: Rising Action
Possessive Pronoun