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Praxis Literature
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.
Plot: Resolution
Proper adjective
Type of Lit: Essay
Historical Fiction
2. 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.
Type of Lit: Myth
Poetry
Play
Realistic fiction
3. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Literary Selections: Narrative
Communication: Crisis
Type of Lit: Prose
Type of Lit: Realism
4. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Schema
Type of Lit: Short Story
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Novel
5. A comparison of two unrelated objects - concepts - or ideas through the use of the words like or as. (Ex. My words trickled off my tongue like raindrops on a windshield.)
Biography
Tone
Pace
Simile
6. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Personal Point of View
Tone
Play
Conjunction: Correlative
7. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Text - to - world (T- W
Pace
dipthong
Object Pronoun
8. (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.
Developing
Idiom
Flashback
Mood
9. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Flashback
Literary Selections: Expository
Setting
Conjunction: Subordinating
10. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Common adjective
Singular pronouns
Point of View
Epic
11. 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
Physical Point of View
Proper adjective
Adverb
12. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Conjunction: Correlative
Dialogue
Literary elements
Historical Fiction
13. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Type of Lit: Novel
grapheme
Onomatopoeia
Mood
14. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Schema
Positive adverbs
Common adjective
Type of Lit: Novel
15. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Initial
Declarative
Indefinite adjective
Type of Lit: Drama
16. 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
Future tense
fiction
Plot: Falling action
17. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Imperative
Imagery
Common adjective
Initial
18. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Inferences
Adverb
phoneme
19. 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.
Dramatic monologue
Imperative
Noun
Three (or more) syllable adjective
20. 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.
Direct presentation
Mystery
Conjunction: Subordinating
Communication: Deviants
21. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Article
Pronoun
Conjunction: Correlative
Second Person
22. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Epic
Type of Lit: Drama
Indefinite adjective
Dramatic Irony
23. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Adverb
Preposition
Exclamatory
Foreshadow
24. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Dialogue
Regular verbs
Plot: Falling action
Plot: Exposition
25. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Second Person
Play
Personal pronouns
Positive adverbs
26. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Theme
Type of Lit: Comedy
Literary Selections: Expository
Dialogue
27. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Interjection
Irregular adjective
Communication: Deviants
Dramatic monologue
28. Main problem in the story.
Plot: Conflict
Literary Selections: Expository
Inferences
Demonstrative adjective
29. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Plot: Conflict
non - fiction
Inferences
Three (or more) syllable adjective
30. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Idiom
Degree adverbs
Simile
Developing
31. 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).
fiction
homophone
Third Person
phoneme
32. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Physical Point of View
Folktales
Interrogative
Opinion
33. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Superlative adjective
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Fable
Analogy
34. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Type of Lit: Parable
Adverb
Object Pronoun
35. Shows the action is happening now.
Oxymoron
Present tense
Possessive Pronoun
Decoding Skills
36. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Opinion
Dramatic Irony
Interrogative
Dialogue
37. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Exaggeration
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Drama
Indefinite adjective
38. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Alliteration
Future tense
Positive adverbs
Type of Lit: Short Story
39. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Time adverbs
Manner adverbs
Plot: Climax
Mental Point of View
40. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Physical Point of View
Personal Point of View
Third Person
Literary elements
41. The author tells the story from an outside voice. The narrator is not one of the characters in the story but informs the reader about the characters.
Third Person
Flashback
Manner adverbs
Singular pronouns
42. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Prepositional phrase
Subject Pronoun
Type of Lit: Allegory
Proper adjective
43. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Pace
Theme
Complex sentences
phoneme
44. 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.
Interrogative
Communication
Figurative Language
First Person
45. 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.
Communication: Rituals
morpheme
Pronoun
Situational Irony
46. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Mood
Flashback
Point of View
Dramatic Irony
47. Restating in different words
Paraphrase
Manner adverbs
Superlative adverbs
Personification
48. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Future tense
Type of Lit: Myth
Noun
Past tense
49. 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.)
Type of Lit: Novel
Alliteration
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Compound adjective
50. An exaggeration or use of a statement that enhances the effects of the words - which may or may not be realistic. (Ex. It was such a hot summer that even the cactus was sweating.)
Reflection/response
Hyperbole
Type of Lit: Novel
Personal pronouns