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Praxis Literature
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Subjects
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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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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. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Future tense
Second Person
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Novel
2. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Possessive Pronoun
Text - to - world (T- W
Type of Lit: Parable
Flashback
3. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Hyperbole
Tone
Plot
fiction
4. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Science fiction
Positive adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
Critical Analysis
5. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Plot: Exposition
Superlative adjective
Type of Lit: Drama
6. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Place adverbs
Plot: Types of Conflict
Folktales
Interrogative
7. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Singular pronouns
Oxymoron
Complex sentences
Degree adverbs
8. 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.)
dipthong
Text - to - self (T- S)
Metaphor
phoneme
9. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Direct presentation
Manner adverbs
Personal pronouns
Type of Lit: Realism
10. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Initial
morpheme
Compound - complex sentences
Realistic fiction
11. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Compound adjective
Plot: Rising Action
Biography
Literary Selections: Expository
12. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Article
Dramatic monologue
Mystery
Personal pronouns
13. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Predicate adjective
Singular pronouns
Type of Lit: Comedy
Personal Point of View
14. 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.
Two - syllable adjective
First Person
Personal Point of View
Pronoun
15. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Compound adjective
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Plot: Inciting force
Type of Lit: Tragedy
16. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Personal pronouns
Plot: Resolution
Degree adverbs
Communication
17. 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.
Communication: Rituals
Literary Selections: Narrative
Developing
Analogy
18. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Verbal Irony
Personal Point of View
homonym
Proper adjective
19. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
First Person
Manner adverbs
Personification
Comparative adverbs
20. 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
Type of Lit: Comedy
Article
Type of Lit: Fable
21. The writer tells the story another character addressing him as 'you'. It appears to the readers as if they are the characters being told what to do and what to feel.
Interjection
Second Person
Flashback
Place adverbs
22. About someone's life (written by another person)
Biography
Superlative adjective
Type of Lit: Drama
Autobiography
23. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Exaggeration
Idiom
Type of Lit: Novel
Compound - complex sentences
24. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Personal pronouns
morpheme
Decoding Skills
Play
25. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Compound sentences
Initial
Dialogue
Mental Point of View
26. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
homonym
Prepositional phrase
Reflection/response
Communication: Deviants
27. Compare 3 or more things.
Comparative adjective
Superlative adverbs
Direct presentation
Type of Lit: Tragedy
28. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Symbol
Dramatic monologue
Literary Selections: Narrative
Possessive Pronoun
29. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Motif
Critical Analysis
Pace
Plot: Rising Action
30. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Adverb
Plot: Falling action
Epic
homophone
31. 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.
Type of Lit: Drama
Paraphrase
Flashback
Communication: Crisis
32. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Plot: Resolution
Critical Analysis
non - fiction
Text - to - world (T- W
33. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Singular pronouns
Proper adjective
Mental Point of View
Plot: Falling action
34. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Verbal Irony
Direct presentation
Subject Pronoun
Communication
35. (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.
Personal Point of View
Manner adverbs
Developing
non - fiction
36. Main problem in the story.
Irregular adjective
Hyperbole
Plot: Conflict
Article
37. 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.
Plot: Climax
Type of Lit: Myth
Paraphrase
Type of Lit: Tragedy
38. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Idiom
morpheme
fiction
Fact
39. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Type of Lit: Novel
Compound adjective
Preposition
Verb
40. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Proper adjective
Declarative
Time adverbs
Setting
41. Express one complete thought.
Simple sentences
Compound - complex sentences
Common adjective
Mental Point of View
42. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Point of View
Adverb
Situational Irony
Degree adverbs
43. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Future tense
Past tense
Imagery
digraph
44. (construction stage) Reader has contact with content - structure - genre - and the language of the text - using prior knowledge to build an understanding of the elements.
Hyperbole
Figurative Language
grapheme
Initial
45. 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.
Mystery
Plot: Climax
Point of View
homonym
46. 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.
Communication: Rituals
Type of Lit: Essay
Pronoun
Third Person
47. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Exclamatory
Plot: Climax
Type of Lit: Allegory
48. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Literary Selections: Expository
Theme
Irregular adjective
49. 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.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Communication: Rituals
Imagery
Type of Lit: Short Story
50. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Communication: Crisis
Type of Lit: Allegory
Communication: Encounters
Simile