Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis Literature

Subjects : praxis, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson






2. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)






3. A narrative is a constructive format (as a work of speech - writing - song - film - television - video games - photography or theatre) that describes a sequence of non - fictional or fictional events.






4. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.






5. 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.






6. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.






7. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.






8. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.






9. Compare 3 or more things.






10. 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.






11. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).






12. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)






13. 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.






14. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.






15. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable






16. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story






17. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.






18. About someone's life (written by another person)






19. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative






20. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.






21. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.






22. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.






23. Characters or events trigger the central conflict






24. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.






25. 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.






26. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.






27. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.






28. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work






29. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.






30. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.






31. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.






32. A word the joins together words or groups of words.






33. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.






34. When the author says one thing and means something else






35. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader






36. A story written for the purpose of performance






37. (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.






38. Restating in different words






39. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.






40. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.






41. Shows the action is happening now.






42. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.






43. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.






44. Is a word used in place of or to replace a noun. Pronouns include: I - me - myself - you - yours - yourself - we - us - ours - he - she - his - her - hers - they - their - theirs - it - its.






45. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.






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.






47. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.






48. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.






49. 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.)






50. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.