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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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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. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Plot: Rising Action
Type of Lit: Novel
Literary Selections: Narrative
Interjection
2. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Irregular adjective
phoneme
Singular pronouns
Comparative adjective
3. 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.
Imagery
Text - to - world (T- W
Verb
Point of View
4. 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.
Imagery
Verb
Irony
Adverb
5. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Mood
Time adverbs
grapheme
Superlative adjective
6. The use of a recurring object - element - concept - word - phrase - or structure in order to draw the readers' attention to a specific point the author is trying to make.
Initial
Motif
Science fiction
Compound - complex sentences
7. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Manner adverbs
Place adverbs
affix
8. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Imperative
Object Pronoun
Epic
Indirect presentation
9. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Indirect presentation
Direct presentation
Fantasy
Time adverbs
10. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Type of Lit: Parable
Future tense
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Drama
11. 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.)
Communication: Crisis
Alliteration
Motif
Type of Lit: Short Story
12. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Regular verbs
Type of Lit: Fable
Compound sentences
Plot: Exposition
13. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Literary elements
Figurative Language
Mental Point of View
Plot: Falling action
14. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Fantasy
Two - syllable adjective
Fact
Rhyme
15. 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
Type of Lit: Essay
Realistic fiction
Decoding Skills
16. About someone's life (written by another person)
Biography
Exclamatory
Indefinite adjective
Present tense
17. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Verbal Irony
Type of Lit: Tragedy
grapheme
Singular pronouns
18. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Allegory
Point of View
Communication: Encounters
19. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
non - fiction
homonym
Dramatic monologue
Type of Lit: Realism
20. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Positive adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
Biography
21. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Literary Selections: Expository
Positive adjective
Historical Fiction
Personal pronouns
22. Compare two things.
non - fiction
Comparative adverbs
digraph
Three (or more) syllable adjective
23. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
digraph
Interjection
Adjective
Compound - complex sentences
24. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Prepositional phrase
Predicate adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
Setting
25. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Exaggeration
Situational Irony
Compound adjective
Fact
26. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Rising Action
Proper adjective
Plural pronouns
Autobiography
27. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Initial
Poetry
Regular verbs
Simile
28. 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.)
Simile
Situational Irony
Compound sentences
Motif
29. 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.)
Oxymoron
Personification
Positive adverbs
Irony
30. 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.
Idiom
Indefinite adjective
Mystery
Future tense
31. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Point of View
Irregular verbs
Historical Fiction
non - fiction
32. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
Communication
Plot: Conflict
Literary Selections: Narrative
Oxymoron
33. Have 1 independent clause and one or more dependent clauses.
Interrogative
Complex sentences
Plot: Types of Conflict
Personal Point of View
34. 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.
Interrogative
Second Person
Imagery
Positive adverbs
35. 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: Tragedy
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Myth
Three (or more) syllable adjective
36. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Personal Point of View
Plural pronouns
Decoding Skills
Folktales
37. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Prepositional phrase
Foreshadow
Plot: Rising Action
Fantasy
38. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Plot: Falling action
Object Pronoun
Plot
morpheme
39. 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
Metaphor
Plot: Climax
Verbal Irony
40. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
homophone
Past tense
Positive adverbs
Possessive Pronoun
41. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Communication: Rituals
Figurative Language
Direct presentation
Irregular adjective
42. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Science fiction
Hyperbole
Biography
Type of Lit: Drama
43. Main problem in the story.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Communication: Rituals
Positive adjective
Plot: Conflict
44. Restating in different words
Physical Point of View
Opinion
Paraphrase
Pace
45. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Common adjective
Autobiography
Indirect presentation
Demonstrative adjective
46. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Personal Point of View
Comparative adverbs
Plot
Dialogue
47. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Superlative adjective
Opinion
Literary Selections: Narrative
Symbol
48. 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.
Text - to - self (T- S)
Personal pronouns
First Person
Communication: Encounters
49. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Plot
Theme
Interrogative
Direct presentation
50. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Analogy
Past tense
Plot: Exposition
Pronoun