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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. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Possessive Pronoun
Theme
Hyperbole
Plot
2. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Personification
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Drama
Schema
3. (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.
Motif
Initial
Noun
Communication: Encounters
4. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
homonym
Verbal Irony
Alliteration
Third Person
5. 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.
Demonstrative adjective
Exclamatory
Plot: Falling action
Motif
6. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Dramatic Irony
Pronoun
Type of Lit: Fable
Adverb
7. 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.
morpheme
Flashback
Text - to - self (T- S)
Opinion
8. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Symbol
Foreshadow
homophone
9. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Object Pronoun
morpheme
Possessive Pronoun
Communication
10. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Conjunction
Conjunction: Coordinating
Second Person
Historical Fiction
11. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Analogy
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Folktales
Plot: Inciting force
12. 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.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Manner adverbs
Mental Point of View
Personal pronouns
13. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Dramatic monologue
Place adverbs
Communication: Crisis
Fact
14. 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.
Mental Point of View
Foreshadow
Communication
Plot: Rising Action
15. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Time adverbs
Onomatopoeia
Plot: Rising Action
Theme
16. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Decoding Skills
fiction
non - fiction
Personification
17. (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.
Developing
Comparative adverbs
Superlative adverbs
Degree adverbs
18. 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.
affix
Compound adjective
Mystery
Type of Lit: Fable
19. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Foreshadow
Present tense
Oxymoron
Declarative
20. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Simile
Idiom
Text - to - self (T- S)
morpheme
21. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Demonstrative adjective
Future tense
Point of View
Object Pronoun
22. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Type of Lit: Prose
Pronoun
Oxymoron
Critical Analysis
23. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Plot: Climax
Conjunction: Correlative
Type of Lit: Prose
Communication
24. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Indefinite adjective
Type of Lit: Essay
Adverb
Mood
25. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Plot: Conflict
Indirect presentation
Physical Point of View
Verb
26. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Type of Lit: Myth
Exaggeration
Literary elements
Epic
27. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Literary Selections: Expository
Plot: Rising Action
Play
Positive adverbs
28. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
grapheme
Fact
Reflection/response
29. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Epic
Interrogative
Complex sentences
Setting
30. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Subject Pronoun
Mystery
Mental Point of View
Plot: Types of Conflict
31. Compare 3 or more things.
Onomatopoeia
Demonstrative adjective
Superlative adverbs
Communication: Encounters
32. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Imagery
Compound sentences
Adverb
Imperative
33. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Superlative adverbs
Analogy
morpheme
Setting
34. When the author says one thing and means something else
Opinion
Verbal Irony
Plot: Falling action
phoneme
35. Words that are spelled differently - pronounced identically - but have different meanings. (Ex. two - too - to; isle - aisle; ball - bawl; sweet - suite; here - hear; pair - pear; pain - pane).
Exclamatory
Folktales
homophone
Superlative adjective
36. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Complex sentences
Dramatic Irony
Plot: Inciting force
Symbol
37. Compare two things.
Pronoun
Comparative adverbs
Positive adjective
Time adverbs
38. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Compound - complex sentences
Plot: Climax
Verbal Irony
Opinion
39. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Setting
Irregular adjective
Symbol
Epic
40. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Plural pronouns
Plot: Resolution
Interjection
Adverb
41. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Allegory
Mystery
Place adverbs
42. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Conjunction
Text - to - self (T- S)
Comparative adverbs
Proper adjective
43. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Verbal Irony
digraph
Dialogue
Reflection/response
44. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Positive adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
grapheme
Plot: Conflict
45. 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.
Schema
Past tense
Text - to - world (T- W
Positive adjective
46. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Idiom
affix
Plot: Exposition
Type of Lit: Drama
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.
Irony
non - fiction
Subject Pronoun
Physical Point of View
48. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Type of Lit: Prose
Decoding Skills
homonym
49. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Setting
Theme
Verb
Three (or more) syllable adjective
50. 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.)
Two - syllable adjective
Idiom
Type of Lit: Myth
Complex sentences