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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. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
fiction
Irony
Science fiction
Comparative adjective
2. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
Compound - complex sentences
Interjection
Mental Point of View
3. 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.
Flashback
Degree adverbs
Compound - complex sentences
Critical Analysis
4. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Object Pronoun
digraph
Plot: Climax
Interjection
5. 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.)
Alliteration
Conjunction: Correlative
Type of Lit: Myth
Plot: Types of Conflict
6. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Type of Lit: Short Story
Developing
Type of Lit: Fable
Past tense
7. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Plot: Falling action
Demonstrative adjective
Type of Lit: Comedy
Mental Point of View
8. 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.
Complex sentences
Communication: Rituals
Type of Lit: Parable
phoneme
9. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Regular verbs
Mood
Predicate adjective
Conjunction: Subordinating
10. Compare 3 or more things.
Plural pronouns
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Allegory
Superlative adverbs
11. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Plot: Inciting force
Type of Lit: Realism
fiction
Second Person
12. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Time adverbs
Plot: Types of Conflict
Plot: Inciting force
Personal Point of View
13. 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).
Plot: Types of Conflict
First Person
homophone
Demonstrative adjective
14. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Biography
Predicate adjective
Superlative adjective
Direct presentation
15. 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.)
Idiom
Analogy
digraph
Realistic fiction
16. 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.
Autobiography
Text - to - world (T- W
Future tense
Plot: Resolution
17. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Irregular adjective
Realistic fiction
Literary Selections: Expository
18. Main problem in the story.
Time adverbs
Plot: Conflict
Text - to - world (T- W
Literary Selections: Expository
19. Restating in different words
Folktales
Historical Fiction
Paraphrase
Interjection
20. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Pace
Tone
morpheme
Plot: Falling action
21. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Play
Simple sentences
Schema
Simile
22. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Simple sentences
Mental Point of View
Literary Selections: Expository
Type of Lit: Drama
23. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Historical Fiction
Personal Point of View
Conjunction: Coordinating
Text - to - world (T- W
24. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Rituals
Dialogue
Mystery
Communication: Deviants
25. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Interrogative
affix
Future tense
Personification
26. 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
Interrogative
Present tense
Realistic fiction
27. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
digraph
Figurative Language
Exclamatory
Folktales
28. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
non - fiction
Exclamatory
Irregular verbs
Indirect presentation
29. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Rhyme
Conjunction: Correlative
Adjective
Plot: Conflict
30. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Article
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Short Story
Physical Point of View
31. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Historical Fiction
Compound - complex sentences
Type of Lit: Comedy
Irregular adjective
32. 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
Imperative
Setting
Oxymoron
Type of Lit: Short Story
33. 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.
Dramatic monologue
Adverb
Irony
Mystery
34. 1. Man vs. Man - One person is against another.2. Man vs. Nature - A person(s) battles with forces of nature.3. Man vs. Society - Societal values (customs) are challenged by person(s).4. Man vs. Self - Internal struggles - or test of values of a char
Plot: Types of Conflict
Type of Lit: Essay
Type of Lit: Allegory
Reflection/response
35. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Third Person
Mental Point of View
phoneme
Future tense
36. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Personification
Figurative Language
Complex sentences
Epic
37. Compare two things.
Science fiction
Comparative adverbs
Pronoun
Plot: Inciting force
38. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Inferences
Poetry
Idiom
Singular pronouns
39. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Imperative
Folktales
Simile
Degree adverbs
40. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Analogy
Schema
Personal pronouns
Physical Point of View
41. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Setting
Schema
morpheme
Communication
42. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Adverb
Realistic fiction
Plot: Resolution
Personification
43. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Communication: Encounters
Plot: Rising Action
Tone
Three (or more) syllable adjective
44. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Play
Plot: Resolution
Historical Fiction
Simile
45. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Subject Pronoun
Analogy
Text - to - self (T- S)
Pronoun
46. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Dramatic monologue
Imperative
Irregular verbs
Historical Fiction
47. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Pace
Type of Lit: Prose
Common adjective
Place adverbs
48. 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.
Exclamatory
Rhyme
Situational Irony
Literary Selections: Narrative
49. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Plot: Resolution
Fact
Compound - complex sentences
Folktales
50. 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.
Pronoun
Text - to - self (T- S)
non - fiction
Prepositional phrase