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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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.)
Conjunction
Hyperbole
affix
Figurative Language
2. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Communication: Deviants
Conjunction: Coordinating
Fantasy
Opinion
3. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Developing
Prepositional phrase
Theme
4. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Type of Lit: Comedy
Critical Analysis
Realistic fiction
Two - syllable adjective
5. Restating in different words
Exaggeration
Demonstrative adjective
Foreshadow
Paraphrase
6. Uses a completely different word to express the comparison.
Simple sentences
Irregular adjective
Decoding Skills
Personification
7. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Tone
Type of Lit: Realism
Folktales
Metaphor
8. 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: Essay
Critical Analysis
Predicate adjective
Mood
9. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Plot: Resolution
Type of Lit: Short Story
Time adverbs
Type of Lit: Realism
10. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Preposition
Folktales
Conjunction: Subordinating
Singular pronouns
11. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Onomatopoeia
Compound sentences
Type of Lit: Prose
Folktales
12. Main problem in the story.
Indirect presentation
Plot: Conflict
Interjection
Irony
13. 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.
Plot: Exposition
Proper adjective
Second Person
Manner adverbs
14. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Mood
Third Person
Common adjective
Demonstrative adjective
15. 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.
Autobiography
Play
Text - to - world (T- W
Developing
16. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Communication: Crisis
Second Person
non - fiction
Article
17. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Literary Selections: Narrative
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Irregular verbs
grapheme
18. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Singular pronouns
Plot
Plot: Inciting force
dipthong
19. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Type of Lit: Fable
Literary elements
Type of Lit: Novel
Type of Lit: Parable
20. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Superlative adjective
Type of Lit: Drama
phoneme
Conjunction
21. 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.
Literary Selections: Expository
Opinion
Type of Lit: Short Story
Demonstrative adjective
22. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Comparative adverbs
Alliteration
Verbal Irony
23. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Personification
Conjunction: Correlative
Schema
24. 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
Literary Selections: Expository
morpheme
Tone
25. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Inferences
Communication: Rituals
Type of Lit: Fable
Dramatic Irony
26. When the author says one thing and means something else
Degree adverbs
Time adverbs
Verbal Irony
Historical Fiction
27. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory
Foreshadow
Motif
Poetry
28. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Personal pronouns
Interrogative
Regular verbs
29. 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
Literary Selections: Narrative
Metaphor
digraph
30. A narrative is a constructive format (as a work of speech - writing - song - film - television - video games - photography or theatre) that describes a sequence of non - fictional or fictional events.
Text - to - world (T- W
Irony
Literary Selections: Narrative
Positive adverbs
31. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Future tense
Indirect presentation
Rhyme
Plot: Exposition
32. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Foreshadow
Situational Irony
Conjunction
Metaphor
33. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
phoneme
Epic
Plot: Rising Action
non - fiction
34. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Superlative adjective
Foreshadow
Imperative
Indirect presentation
35. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Hyperbole
Conjunction: Coordinating
Place adverbs
Opinion
36. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
phoneme
Poetry
Irony
Plural pronouns
37. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Proper adjective
Initial
Compound adjective
Type of Lit: Allegory
38. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Manner adverbs
Superlative adjective
Autobiography
Irregular adjective
39. 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.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Noun
Plot: Inciting force
Proper adjective
40. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
Comparative adverbs
Literary Selections: Expository
morpheme
Type of Lit: Parable
41. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Compound sentences
Idiom
Initial
Three (or more) syllable adjective
42. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Schema
Past tense
Mood
Metaphor
43. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Type of Lit: Realism
Rhyme
Past tense
Imperative
44. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Schema
Communication: Deviants
Comparative adjective
Predicate adjective
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.
Mystery
Literary elements
Historical Fiction
Plot: Types of Conflict
46. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Text - to - world (T- W
non - fiction
Literary Selections: Expository
Object Pronoun
47. Is a word used to describe a noun or pronoun.
Adjective
Plot: Resolution
fiction
Superlative adverbs
48. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Dramatic Irony
Past tense
Indefinite adjective
Irony
49. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Literary elements
Pace
Realistic fiction
Verbal Irony
50. 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.)
Comparative adjective
Alliteration
Regular verbs
Type of Lit: Allegory