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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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literature
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Compound sentences
Plot: Inciting force
Superlative adverbs
Type of Lit: Drama
2. Connection is defined as the comparison between what is currently being read to that of other literary works that have been read in the past.
homonym
Theme
Fantasy
Text - to - text (T- T)
3. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Type of Lit: Novel
Realistic fiction
Plot: Inciting force
Fantasy
4. 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
Plot: Types of Conflict
Literary Selections: Expository
Compound sentences
5. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Mental Point of View
Literary elements
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Parable
6. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Foreshadow
Dramatic monologue
Literary elements
Communication: Crisis
7. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Communication
Dramatic monologue
Interrogative
Singular pronouns
8. 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.
Simile
Communication
Science fiction
Text - to - world (T- W
9. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Type of Lit: Parable
Plot: Rising Action
Verb
Manner adverbs
10. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Personification
Third Person
Literary Selections: Expository
Plural pronouns
11. 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)
Complex sentences
Type of Lit: Myth
Opinion
dipthong
12. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Alliteration
Plot: Inciting force
homonym
Type of Lit: Comedy
13. The author takes the point of view of a character providing personal thoughts or feelings and shares what other characters do and say. This is the 'I' narrative.
Type of Lit: Novel
First Person
Historical Fiction
homonym
14. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Mood
Indefinite adjective
Motif
Folktales
15. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Historical Fiction
Fact
Dramatic monologue
Comparative adverbs
16. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Imagery
Adjective
Regular verbs
Type of Lit: Comedy
17. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Realistic fiction
Positive adverbs
Complex sentences
Play
18. 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.
morpheme
Communication
Simple sentences
Noun
19. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Type of Lit: Myth
Inferences
Demonstrative adjective
Historical Fiction
20. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Possessive Pronoun
Present tense
Manner adverbs
Idiom
21. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Type of Lit: Novel
Type of Lit: Drama
fiction
Biography
22. Attachment to a base or root word.
Theme
affix
Point of View
Declarative
23. (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.
Symbol
Communication
Reflection/response
Place adverbs
24. Express one complete thought.
Irony
Figurative Language
Situational Irony
Simple sentences
25. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Alliteration
Irony
Compound adjective
Adjective
26. 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.)
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Metaphor
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Short Story
27. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Dramatic Irony
Plot: Rising Action
Imagery
Plot: Exposition
28. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Point of View
Dramatic Irony
Noun
29. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Situational Irony
Dramatic Irony
Autobiography
Type of Lit: Parable
30. A story written for the purpose of performance
Type of Lit: Short Story
homonym
Compound adjective
Play
31. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Inferences
Type of Lit: Prose
Situational Irony
Compound sentences
32. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Compound adjective
Opinion
Plural pronouns
Two - syllable adjective
33. 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.
Superlative adverbs
Type of Lit: Drama
grapheme
Type of Lit: Myth
34. 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.
Regular verbs
Mystery
Plot: Conflict
Mental Point of View
35. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Pronoun
phoneme
Third Person
Opinion
36. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Indefinite adjective
Future tense
Plot
homonym
37. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Decoding Skills
Third Person
Type of Lit: Parable
Two - syllable adjective
38. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
First Person
Compound sentences
Possessive Pronoun
39. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Opinion
Superlative adjective
digraph
Irregular adjective
40. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Text - to - world (T- W
Possessive Pronoun
Object Pronoun
Declarative
41. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Adverb
Communication: Deviants
Fantasy
Onomatopoeia
42. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Mood
Compound sentences
Object Pronoun
Personal pronouns
43. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Communication: Rituals
Plot: Types of Conflict
Imperative
Plot: Rising Action
44. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Physical Point of View
Poetry
Personal pronouns
Communication: Rituals
45. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Predicate adjective
Type of Lit: Parable
Plot: Climax
Plot: Falling action
46. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Analogy
Irregular adjective
Compound - complex sentences
Place adverbs
47. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Conjunction
Verb
Compound sentences
Point of View
48. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Proper adjective
Personal Point of View
Communication
Historical Fiction
49. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Positive adverbs
Complex sentences
affix
Analogy
50. Daily communications that happen as people interact with one another in their common environment. These relations may occur in the home - at work - in school - in the community - or on the computer.
Communication: Encounters
Demonstrative adjective
Type of Lit: Parable
First Person
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