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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. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Decoding Skills
Place adverbs
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Short Story
2. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Positive adverbs
Physical Point of View
Declarative
3. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Indefinite adjective
Tone
fiction
Type of Lit: Drama
4. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Complex sentences
dipthong
Indirect presentation
Text - to - self (T- S)
5. 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.
Developing
Oxymoron
Irregular verbs
Conjunction: Coordinating
6. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Complex sentences
Pace
Plot: Inciting force
Exaggeration
7. 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).
homophone
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Allegory
Positive adjective
8. 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.
Exaggeration
Motif
Type of Lit: Allegory
Plot
9. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Play
grapheme
Type of Lit: Prose
Literary Selections: Expository
10. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Singular pronouns
Folktales
Personification
Exclamatory
11. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Regular verbs
digraph
Communication: Crisis
fiction
12. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Figurative Language
Tone
Possessive Pronoun
Fantasy
13. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Positive adverbs
Article
Historical Fiction
Type of Lit: Essay
14. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Comparative adverbs
Communication: Crisis
Rhyme
15. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Mood
Third Person
Singular pronouns
Positive adjective
16. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Science fiction
digraph
Communication: Crisis
Dramatic monologue
17. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Indirect presentation
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Comedy
Plot: Climax
18. (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.
Verb
Developing
Tone
Imperative
19. 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.
Noun
Figurative Language
Adjective
Communication: Rituals
20. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Regular verbs
phoneme
dipthong
Pace
21. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
fiction
Oxymoron
Mystery
Common adjective
22. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Autobiography
Fantasy
Compound - complex sentences
Pronoun
23. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Adjective
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Drama
24. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
grapheme
Tone
dipthong
Idiom
25. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Mystery
Comparative adjective
Communication: Crisis
First Person
26. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Literary Selections: Expository
Imperative
Past tense
Text - to - self (T- S)
27. A non - fiction piece that is often short and used to express the writer's opinion about a topic or to share information on a subject.
Type of Lit: Essay
Compound adjective
Communication
Verb
28. 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.)
First Person
Alliteration
Exaggeration
Common adjective
29. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Plot: Inciting force
Situational Irony
Comparative adverbs
Article
30. (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.
Compound adjective
Reflection/response
Complex sentences
Three (or more) syllable adjective
31. Main problem in the story.
Article
Object Pronoun
Singular pronouns
Plot: Conflict
32. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
dipthong
Personification
Dialogue
Symbol
33. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Adjective
Direct presentation
Subject Pronoun
34. 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.
Indefinite adjective
Reflection/response
Place adverbs
Type of Lit: Short Story
35. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Folktales
Compound sentences
Physical Point of View
Plot: Falling action
36. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Type of Lit: Essay
Manner adverbs
Autobiography
Simple sentences
37. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Initial
Type of Lit: Essay
Superlative adverbs
Positive adverbs
38. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Predicate adjective
Place adverbs
Positive adjective
Second Person
39. 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.
Foreshadow
Idiom
Flashback
Text - to - self (T- S)
40. 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.
Prepositional phrase
Degree adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Verb
41. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Plot: Conflict
Fact
Plot: Rising Action
Third Person
42. 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.
Demonstrative adjective
Science fiction
Third Person
Type of Lit: Drama
43. 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.
Hyperbole
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Parable
Dramatic Irony
44. These communications occur as part of a tradition - or established meeting or time when certain groups come together for discussions or in response to activities.
Exclamatory
Declarative
Communication: Rituals
Type of Lit: Fable
45. Restating in different words
Literary Selections: Expository
Inferences
Simple sentences
Paraphrase
46. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Epic
Prepositional phrase
Future tense
Decoding Skills
47. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Complex sentences
Plot: Climax
Place adverbs
Play
48. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Comparative adverbs
Past tense
Preposition
Direct presentation
49. Shows the action is happening now.
Mental Point of View
Singular pronouns
Indefinite adjective
Present tense
50. 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.)
Dramatic monologue
Simile
Exclamatory
Superlative adverbs