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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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1. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Setting
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Historical Fiction
Superlative adverbs
2. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Tone
Poetry
phoneme
Comparative adverbs
3. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Text - to - world (T- W
Personal pronouns
Proper adjective
Hyperbole
4. 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.
Critical Analysis
Type of Lit: Myth
Type of Lit: Drama
Fact
5. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Demonstrative adjective
Schema
Personification
Figurative Language
6. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Common adjective
Communication: Encounters
Simple sentences
Tone
7. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Fable
Dramatic Irony
homonym
8. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Tone
fiction
digraph
Autobiography
9. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Critical Analysis
Plot
Direct presentation
Type of Lit: Essay
10. 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.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
First Person
Subject Pronoun
Communication: Rituals
11. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Epic
Flashback
Mental Point of View
Plot
12. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Epic
Literary Selections: Narrative
Plot: Conflict
13. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Analogy
Direct presentation
Schema
Personal Point of View
14. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Folktales
Metaphor
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Drama
15. About someone's life (written by another person)
Biography
Demonstrative adjective
Complex sentences
Dramatic Irony
16. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Plural pronouns
Interrogative
Symbol
Text - to - text (T- T)
17. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Theme
non - fiction
Communication: Rituals
Compound sentences
18. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Text - to - world (T- W
Initial
Communication: Crisis
Regular verbs
19. (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.
Type of Lit: Fable
Analogy
Place adverbs
Initial
20. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Adverb
Critical Analysis
Positive adjective
Conjunction
21. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Positive adjective
Conjunction: Correlative
Personal Point of View
Rhyme
22. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Dramatic Irony
First Person
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Fable
23. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Positive adverbs
Irony
Theme
Critical Analysis
24. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Preposition
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Oxymoron
Dialogue
25. 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.
Manner adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Present tense
Indirect presentation
26. The ability to impart and share knowledge - opinions - ideas - feelings - and beliefs.
grapheme
Plot: Types of Conflict
Communication
Personal pronouns
27. Is a word that shows action(s) or a state of being.
Type of Lit: Fable
Present tense
Verb
Poetry
28. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Plot: Falling action
Future tense
Degree adverbs
Pace
29. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Decoding Skills
Declarative
Time adverbs
Conjunction: Subordinating
30. Shows the action is happening now.
Dramatic monologue
Present tense
Opinion
Predicate adjective
31. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Fact
Pace
Plot: Falling action
phoneme
32. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Indefinite adjective
Autobiography
Oxymoron
Compound sentences
33. A character is portrayed by the author - the narrator - or the other characters.
Direct presentation
Foreshadow
Personal Point of View
Play
34. 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.)
Hyperbole
Type of Lit: Drama
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Myth
35. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Symbol
Metaphor
Literary Selections: Narrative
Compound - complex sentences
36. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Plot: Exposition
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Dialogue
37. 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
Adjective
Developing
Plot: Types of Conflict
Singular pronouns
38. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Place adverbs
affix
Historical Fiction
Comparative adjective
39. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Simple sentences
Personal Point of View
Communication: Encounters
Place adverbs
40. 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
Plot: Conflict
Possessive Pronoun
Oxymoron
Metaphor
41. 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
Analogy
Simile
Literary Selections: Expository
42. Compare 3 or more things.
Pace
Superlative adverbs
Biography
Indirect presentation
43. 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.)
Personification
Manner adverbs
fiction
Communication: Rituals
44. Attachment to a base or root word.
Dramatic monologue
affix
Dramatic Irony
Irregular adjective
45. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Positive adjective
Indirect presentation
Prepositional phrase
Idiom
46. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Irony
Fantasy
Declarative
Historical Fiction
47. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Reflection/response
Realistic fiction
Text - to - text (T- T)
Fantasy
48. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Superlative adjective
Oxymoron
Type of Lit: Allegory
Initial
49. 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.
Future tense
Positive adverbs
Point of View
Type of Lit: Short Story
50. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Singular pronouns
Text - to - self (T- S)
Type of Lit: Allegory
Complex sentences