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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. The use of a recurring object - element - concept - word - phrase - or structure in order to draw the readers' attention to a specific point the author is trying to make.
Decoding Skills
Initial
Motif
Positive adverbs
2. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Predicate adjective
Conjunction
Place adverbs
Irregular verbs
3. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Verb
Positive adverbs
Comparative adjective
4. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Type of Lit: Fable
Declarative
Text - to - self (T- S)
5. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Initial
Future tense
Fantasy
Text - to - self (T- S)
6. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Opinion
Physical Point of View
phoneme
non - fiction
7. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Indirect presentation
Possessive Pronoun
Fact
Communication
8. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Historical Fiction
Critical Analysis
Figurative Language
Pronoun
9. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Plot: Inciting force
First Person
Physical Point of View
homonym
10. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Plot: Climax
Tone
Proper adjective
Foreshadow
11. 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
morpheme
Manner adverbs
Play
12. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Plot: Inciting force
Interrogative
Situational Irony
Common adjective
13. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Three (or more) syllable adjective
fiction
Opinion
14. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Rhyme
Prepositional phrase
Irregular verbs
Verb
15. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Plot: Resolution
Article
Type of Lit: Short Story
Pace
16. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Indefinite adjective
Setting
Inferences
Science fiction
17. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Science fiction
Manner adverbs
Text - to - world (T- W
Dramatic monologue
18. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Type of Lit: Essay
Hyperbole
Fantasy
Inferences
19. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Mood
phoneme
Exaggeration
Text - to - world (T- W
20. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Type of Lit: Fable
Mood
Rhyme
grapheme
21. 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.
Physical Point of View
Text - to - world (T- W
Prepositional phrase
Adjective
22. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Comparative adjective
Singular pronouns
Flashback
Situational Irony
23. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
homonym
Indirect presentation
Play
24. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Epic
Future tense
Conjunction: Correlative
Declarative
25. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Novel
Regular verbs
Singular pronouns
26. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Decoding Skills
Place adverbs
Realistic fiction
digraph
27. 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.
Two - syllable adjective
Realistic fiction
Complex sentences
Third Person
28. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Place adverbs
morpheme
Symbol
Foreshadow
29. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Plot: Falling action
Adverb
Point of View
Type of Lit: Myth
30. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Compound adjective
Manner adverbs
Figurative Language
Folktales
31. 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.)
Epic
Type of Lit: Drama
Mental Point of View
Alliteration
32. (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
Theme
Science fiction
Pace
33. Restating in different words
Paraphrase
Literary elements
Conjunction: Correlative
Pace
34. 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
Plot: Inciting force
Verbal Irony
Plot: Types of Conflict
Object Pronoun
35. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Communication
non - fiction
Motif
Adjective
36. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Communication: Deviants
Second Person
Verbal Irony
Symbol
37. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Epic
Simile
Interjection
Type of Lit: Prose
38. 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.
Historical Fiction
Imagery
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Essay
39. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Adverb
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Literary Selections: Expository
Opinion
40. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Second Person
First Person
Pace
Science fiction
41. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Possessive Pronoun
Common adjective
Play
Type of Lit: Realism
42. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Future tense
Type of Lit: Allegory
Point of View
Simple sentences
43. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Fact
Theme
Irregular adjective
Oxymoron
44. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Schema
Communication: Rituals
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Comedy
45. 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.
Type of Lit: Myth
Simile
Imagery
Exaggeration
46. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Folktales
Personal pronouns
Positive adverbs
digraph
47. A group of words with a special - more figurative meaning instead of the literal meaning. (Ex. Charlie planned a presentation on water resources - but jack stole his thunder when he told the boss it was his idea.)
Dialogue
Time adverbs
Demonstrative adjective
Idiom
48. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
digraph
Preposition
Situational Irony
Flashback
49. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Realistic fiction
Communication
Object Pronoun
Play
50. 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.
Degree adverbs
Rhyme
Type of Lit: Short Story
Interrogative