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Praxis Literature
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1. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Onomatopoeia
phoneme
Declarative
Opinion
2. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Complex sentences
Indirect presentation
3. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Article
Future tense
Plot: Conflict
4. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Autobiography
Text - to - self (T- S)
Adjective
Exaggeration
5. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Plot: Rising Action
Mood
Past tense
Autobiography
6. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Two - syllable adjective
Epic
Type of Lit: Fable
Manner adverbs
7. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Autobiography
Adverb
Type of Lit: Parable
Indefinite adjective
8. 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.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Type of Lit: Essay
Text - to - world (T- W
Rhyme
9. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Schema
Point of View
morpheme
Text - to - self (T- S)
10. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Fact
Place adverbs
Regular verbs
11. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Irregular verbs
Onomatopoeia
Predicate adjective
Demonstrative adjective
12. 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).
homophone
Plot: Falling action
Type of Lit: Allegory
Paraphrase
13. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Conjunction: Correlative
Motif
Conjunction: Subordinating
First Person
14. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Literary elements
Type of Lit: Novel
fiction
Type of Lit: Prose
15. 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
Plural pronouns
Developing
Mystery
16. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Common adjective
Play
Type of Lit: Drama
Irregular adjective
17. 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.
Irony
Compound sentences
Verb
Dramatic monologue
18. 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
Article
homophone
Present tense
19. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
morpheme
Conjunction: Subordinating
Superlative adjective
Reflection/response
20. 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
Irregular verbs
Plot: Types of Conflict
Analogy
Oxymoron
21. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Historical Fiction
Initial
Plot: Climax
Exclamatory
22. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Positive adverbs
Tone
Time adverbs
Situational Irony
23. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Third Person
homonym
Fantasy
Adjective
24. 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.
Realistic fiction
Prepositional phrase
Personal Point of View
Type of Lit: Myth
25. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
Conjunction: Subordinating
Indirect presentation
Degree adverbs
26. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Schema
Proper adjective
Compound adjective
Demonstrative adjective
27. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Subject Pronoun
Epic
Conjunction: Coordinating
Setting
28. 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.
Analogy
Irregular adjective
Noun
Dramatic monologue
29. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Epic
Type of Lit: Myth
Plot: Rising Action
Paraphrase
30. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Communication: Deviants
Literary elements
Adjective
Type of Lit: Allegory
31. 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
Two - syllable adjective
Adjective
Common adjective
32. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Type of Lit: Short Story
Object Pronoun
Situational Irony
Literary Selections: Narrative
33. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Irregular verbs
Imperative
Type of Lit: Comedy
Conjunction: Subordinating
34. Express one complete thought.
Realistic fiction
Fact
Conjunction
Simple sentences
35. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Interjection
Type of Lit: Essay
Opinion
fiction
36. 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.
Realistic fiction
Pronoun
Irony
Paraphrase
37. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Alliteration
Inferences
Communication: Deviants
Past tense
38. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
non - fiction
Mystery
Indefinite adjective
Text - to - self (T- S)
39. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Schema
Compound adjective
Idiom
Singular pronouns
40. 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.)
Pronoun
fiction
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Parable
41. Compare 3 or more things.
Conjunction: Correlative
Superlative adverbs
non - fiction
Type of Lit: Parable
42. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Figurative Language
Communication: Deviants
Mental Point of View
43. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
First Person
Analogy
Epic
Conjunction: Subordinating
44. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Manner adverbs
Subject Pronoun
Interrogative
Oxymoron
45. Is a word the modifies a verb - an adjective - or an adverb. Adverbs tell how - when - where - why - how much - and how often.
Adverb
Decoding Skills
Dramatic Irony
Conjunction: Subordinating
46. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Declarative
Biography
Theme
Time adverbs
47. 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
Type of Lit: Allegory
Comparative adverbs
Exaggeration
48. Shows the action is happening now.
Noun
Preposition
Present tense
homophone
49. 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.
Situational Irony
Communication: Rituals
Dramatic monologue
Developing
50. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Exaggeration
Fantasy
Reflection/response
Autobiography
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