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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
homonym
fiction
Plot: Resolution
Two - syllable adjective
2. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
non - fiction
Oxymoron
dipthong
Article
3. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Plot
Text - to - text (T- T)
Communication: Crisis
Symbol
4. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Literary Selections: Expository
Personal pronouns
Symbol
Plural pronouns
5. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Declarative
Verbal Irony
Superlative adverbs
Time adverbs
6. 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.
Positive adjective
Degree adverbs
Literary elements
Type of Lit: Tragedy
7. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Setting
Schema
Plot: Inciting force
Complex sentences
8. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
affix
Type of Lit: Novel
Compound sentences
Text - to - self (T- S)
9. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Hyperbole
Symbol
Type of Lit: Fable
Regular verbs
10. 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)
Plot
Onomatopoeia
Type of Lit: Myth
Positive adverbs
11. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Interrogative
Symbol
Literary Selections: Narrative
Rhyme
12. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Plot: Types of Conflict
non - fiction
Dialogue
Place adverbs
13. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory
Superlative adjective
Epic
Personification
14. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Communication
Personal Point of View
Present tense
Inferences
15. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Manner adverbs
Article
affix
morpheme
16. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Exclamatory
digraph
Plural pronouns
Plot: Rising Action
17. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Type of Lit: Novel
Plot: Exposition
Schema
Demonstrative adjective
18. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Second Person
Science fiction
Adjective
Prepositional phrase
19. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Plot: Exposition
Mystery
Type of Lit: Allegory
Situational Irony
20. Compare two things.
Comparative adverbs
Future tense
Communication: Encounters
Interrogative
21. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
fiction
Exclamatory
phoneme
Plot: Rising Action
22. 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
Third Person
Indefinite adjective
Point of View
23. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Personal pronouns
Developing
Regular verbs
Three (or more) syllable adjective
24. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Regular verbs
Type of Lit: Parable
Exclamatory
Exaggeration
25. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Type of Lit: Novel
Plot: Inciting force
Conjunction: Correlative
Opinion
26. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Communication: Deviants
Critical Analysis
Mood
Past tense
27. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Positive adverbs
Exaggeration
Type of Lit: Essay
non - fiction
28. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Plot: Rising Action
Article
Place adverbs
Onomatopoeia
29. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
grapheme
Future tense
Setting
Historical Fiction
30. 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).
Type of Lit: Allegory
Oxymoron
Place adverbs
homophone
31. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Plot
Mystery
Conjunction: Subordinating
Adverb
32. 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.)
Setting
Alliteration
Play
Prepositional phrase
33. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Symbol
Place adverbs
Type of Lit: Realism
34. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Mental Point of View
Preposition
Play
Pace
35. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Exaggeration
Autobiography
Irregular verbs
Epic
36. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Mental Point of View
Personal pronouns
Third Person
Indefinite adjective
37. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Comparative adjective
Opinion
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Proper adjective
38. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Indirect presentation
Comparative adverbs
Exaggeration
Motif
39. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Physical Point of View
Direct presentation
Epic
Autobiography
40. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
homophone
Decoding Skills
Positive adverbs
Object Pronoun
41. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Folktales
Critical Analysis
homonym
42. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Literary Selections: Expository
Dramatic Irony
Compound - complex sentences
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.
Imagery
fiction
Simile
Type of Lit: Myth
44. 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.
homonym
Type of Lit: Drama
Foreshadow
Imagery
45. 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.
Decoding Skills
Autobiography
Noun
Type of Lit: Parable
46. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Literary Selections: Expository
Compound - complex sentences
digraph
Comparative adjective
47. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Superlative adverbs
Figurative Language
Interjection
Demonstrative adjective
48. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Verb
Object Pronoun
Subject Pronoun
Compound sentences
49. 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.
Initial
Compound adjective
Text - to - text (T- T)
phoneme
50. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Autobiography
Common adjective
Noun
Exclamatory