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Praxis Literature
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Subjects
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praxis
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literature
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Main problem in the story.
Adverb
Subject Pronoun
Plot: Conflict
Dramatic monologue
2. 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)
affix
Personal Point of View
Onomatopoeia
Superlative adverbs
3. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Plot: Falling action
Type of Lit: Fable
Irony
Historical Fiction
4. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Type of Lit: Drama
Plot: Resolution
Conjunction: Subordinating
5. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Historical Fiction
Autobiography
Interrogative
Plot: Resolution
6. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Compound sentences
Degree adverbs
Two - syllable adjective
Hyperbole
7. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Mystery
Past tense
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Drama
8. Societies must deal with people who are considered misfits - as they stray from societal norms and laws.
Communication: Deviants
Noun
Dramatic monologue
Motif
9. 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.
Mental Point of View
Pronoun
Article
Type of Lit: Short Story
10. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Noun
Compound sentences
affix
Irregular verbs
11. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Pace
Communication
Schema
Plot: Resolution
12. 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.
Mystery
Noun
Type of Lit: Prose
Science fiction
13. 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.
Article
Communication: Encounters
Type of Lit: Myth
Reflection/response
14. A story with an imaginary setting - plot - and characters - some of whom may have special powers
Manner adverbs
Complex sentences
Fantasy
Imperative
15. Describes a noun or pronoun without comparing it to anyone or anything else.
Positive adjective
Dramatic Irony
Text - to - text (T- T)
Type of Lit: Short Story
16. Compare two things.
Object Pronoun
Comparative adverbs
Type of Lit: Myth
Personification
17. When the author says one thing and means something else
Imagery
Possessive Pronoun
Comparative adverbs
Verbal Irony
18. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Motif
Communication: Deviants
Direct presentation
Article
19. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
phoneme
Communication
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Autobiography
20. 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.
Plot: Rising Action
morpheme
Plot: Exposition
First Person
21. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Analogy
Manner adverbs
homonym
Exclamatory
22. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Object Pronoun
Poetry
Personal pronouns
Text - to - self (T- S)
23. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Theme
Idiom
Manner adverbs
Time adverbs
24. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Rhyme
Indirect presentation
Type of Lit: Myth
Adjective
25. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
morpheme
Degree adverbs
Historical Fiction
Preposition
26. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Figurative Language
Play
Communication: Crisis
Prepositional phrase
27. The setting - time - event - and characters are based on history and facts.
Complex sentences
Irregular verbs
Historical Fiction
Mental Point of View
28. When the pronoun shows ownership or possession.
Foreshadow
Possessive Pronoun
Text - to - self (T- S)
Communication: Encounters
29. 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
Type of Lit: Parable
Motif
Article
30. 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.)
Demonstrative adjective
Symbol
Hyperbole
Third Person
31. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Onomatopoeia
Comparative adjective
Communication
Future tense
32. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Compound sentences
Predicate adjective
Simile
Idiom
33. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Regular verbs
Symbol
digraph
Irregular verbs
34. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Type of Lit: Myth
Compound sentences
Dramatic monologue
Imperative
35. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Decoding Skills
Motif
Epic
phoneme
36. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Inferences
Personification
Conjunction
Singular pronouns
37. Shows the action is happening now.
Present tense
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Allegory
Communication: Deviants
38. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
morpheme
Adjective
Preposition
Plot
39. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Future tense
Plural pronouns
Personal Point of View
Play
40. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
Plot: Resolution
Compound adjective
Type of Lit: Comedy
Initial
41. The overstatement or the stretching of the truth in order to emphasize a point. (Ex. The music was so loud it shattered my eardrums.)
Physical Point of View
Hyperbole
Interrogative
Exaggeration
42. Connection is defined as the comparison between what is currently being read to that of other literary works that have been read in the past.
Comparative adjective
Type of Lit: Fable
Text - to - text (T- T)
Object Pronoun
43. About someone's life (written by another person)
Biography
Conjunction: Subordinating
Text - to - world (T- W
Imperative
44. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Plot: Exposition
Physical Point of View
Subject Pronoun
Compound sentences
45. 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.
Prepositional phrase
morpheme
non - fiction
Mystery
46. 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.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Irregular adjective
homonym
Interrogative
47. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Science fiction
Declarative
Two - syllable adjective
Biography
48. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Place adverbs
Compound - complex sentences
Theme
dipthong
49. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Regular verbs
Physical Point of View
Mental Point of View
Personal Point of View
50. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
Historical Fiction
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Essay
Compound - complex sentences