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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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1. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Third Person
Communication: Crisis
First Person
Decoding Skills
2. (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.
Irregular adjective
Second Person
Compound adjective
Initial
3. 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
Time adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
Interrogative
4. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Indefinite adjective
Interjection
Compound - complex sentences
Imperative
5. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Fable
Object Pronoun
Autobiography
6. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Conjunction
Type of Lit: Comedy
Manner adverbs
Type of Lit: Drama
7. Daily communications that happen as people interact with one another in their common environment. These relations may occur in the home - at work - in school - in the community - or on the computer.
Communication: Encounters
Common adjective
Comparative adverbs
Declarative
8. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Physical Point of View
Figurative Language
Opinion
Folktales
9. 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.
Play
Historical Fiction
Type of Lit: Essay
Flashback
10. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Indirect presentation
Folktales
Reflection/response
Idiom
11. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Personal Point of View
Demonstrative adjective
Mood
Superlative adjective
12. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Text - to - self (T- S)
Rhyme
Foreshadow
Plot: Rising Action
13. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Positive adverbs
dipthong
Future tense
Rhyme
14. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Onomatopoeia
Communication: Deviants
Plot: Exposition
phoneme
15. The use of descriptive works in such a way as to give human characteristics to a nonhuman thing such as an object - idea or animal. (Ex. The dog danced with joy when she was given a bone.)
Imperative
Personification
Text - to - self (T- S)
Plot: Resolution
16. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Literary elements
Situational Irony
Exclamatory
non - fiction
17. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Interrogative
Subject Pronoun
Regular verbs
Reflection/response
18. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
grapheme
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Drama
Demonstrative adjective
19. 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.
Regular verbs
Type of Lit: Drama
Plural pronouns
Type of Lit: Tragedy
20. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Plot: Conflict
Analogy
Setting
Conjunction
21. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
affix
Fact
Plot: Falling action
Autobiography
22. (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.
Reflection/response
Personification
Indirect presentation
Point of View
23. 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.
Alliteration
Plot: Falling action
Verb
Type of Lit: Short Story
24. 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.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Biography
Type of Lit: Novel
Mystery
25. 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)
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Realistic fiction
Reflection/response
26. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Literary Selections: Expository
Irony
non - fiction
Positive adverbs
27. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Plot: Climax
Indirect presentation
Complex sentences
Present tense
28. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Comparative adjective
homonym
phoneme
Noun
29. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
homonym
Comparative adverbs
Two - syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Realism
30. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Superlative adjective
Demonstrative adjective
Initial
Personal pronouns
31. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Oxymoron
Literary elements
Metaphor
Proper adjective
32. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Comparative adjective
Plot: Inciting force
Flashback
33. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Theme
Literary Selections: Expository
grapheme
Imperative
34. Not true - imaginary - books that are not true stories - but made up ones.
Motif
Reflection/response
Possessive Pronoun
fiction
35. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Dramatic monologue
Reflection/response
Point of View
Type of Lit: Prose
36. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
fiction
Irregular adjective
Manner adverbs
Article
37. 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.
Subject Pronoun
Flashback
Verb
Analogy
38. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Preposition
Metaphor
morpheme
Inferences
39. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Proper adjective
Decoding Skills
Text - to - world (T- W
Comparative adverbs
40. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Symbol
Folktales
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Essay
41. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Personification
Developing
Plot: Rising Action
Historical Fiction
42. The use of conversation between characters in order to provide readers with insight in the characters' behaviors - motivations - and human interactions.
Common adjective
Plot: Conflict
Dialogue
Literary Selections: Narrative
43. 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.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Oxymoron
phoneme
Plot: Inciting force
44. 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.
Foreshadow
Personification
Verbal Irony
Critical Analysis
45. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Type of Lit: Novel
Type of Lit: Prose
Type of Lit: Parable
46. 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
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Dramatic monologue
Oxymoron
47. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Compound sentences
digraph
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Folktales
48. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Irony
Type of Lit: Comedy
Point of View
Opinion
49. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Past tense
affix
Compound sentences
Epic
50. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Type of Lit: Novel
Plural pronouns
Imperative
Analogy
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