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Praxis Literature
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1. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Science fiction
Exaggeration
Demonstrative adjective
2. Focuses on the manner in which the writer describes - discusses - or narrates a subject.
Personal Point of View
Mental Point of View
Prepositional phrase
Communication: Crisis
3. When the author says one thing and means something else
Biography
Superlative adjective
Verbal Irony
Conjunction: Correlative
4. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Possessive Pronoun
Alliteration
Mood
Subject Pronoun
5. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Imagery
Conjunction
Present tense
Plot: Resolution
6. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Plot: Exposition
Physical Point of View
Plot: Falling action
7. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Pace
Type of Lit: Parable
phoneme
Imperative
8. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Two - syllable adjective
Communication: Deviants
Plot: Resolution
Plot: Inciting force
9. A non - fiction piece that is often short and used to express the writer's opinion about a topic or to share information on a subject.
Initial
Type of Lit: Essay
Pace
Physical Point of View
10. Main problem in the story.
Text - to - self (T- S)
Plot: Conflict
Type of Lit: Realism
Play
11. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Common adjective
Manner adverbs
Superlative adjective
Initial
12. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Opinion
Plot: Exposition
Plot: Resolution
dipthong
13. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Realistic fiction
Noun
Three (or more) syllable adjective
14. The conclusion of the story and the completion of all the action.
Mental Point of View
Plot: Resolution
Schema
Pronoun
15. 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).
Interjection
Noun
Plot: Exposition
homophone
16. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Compound - complex sentences
Interrogative
Personal pronouns
Compound sentences
17. A story written in certain form or rhyme and rhythm with imagery
Subject Pronoun
Singular pronouns
Poetry
Reflection/response
18. Have their own - individual form for each tense - which does not follow a pattern.
Singular pronouns
Manner adverbs
Irregular verbs
Compound adjective
19. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Conjunction: Subordinating
Manner adverbs
Situational Irony
20. Combination of 2 letters possessing a single sound (Ex. head=ea - chance=ch - path=th)
Fact
Onomatopoeia
digraph
Communication: Deviants
21. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Conjunction: Coordinating
Declarative
Flashback
Text - to - self (T- S)
22. 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.
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Flashback
Dramatic Irony
Irregular verbs
23. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Theme
Initial
Type of Lit: Essay
Prepositional phrase
24. 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
Communication
Metaphor
Decoding Skills
25. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Personal pronouns
Comparative adjective
Manner adverbs
dipthong
26. 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
Plot: Types of Conflict
Adjective
Object Pronoun
homophone
27. 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.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Mystery
Simple sentences
Literary Selections: Expository
28. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Symbol
Manner adverbs
Plot: Falling action
Fantasy
29. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Type of Lit: Prose
Manner adverbs
Point of View
Text - to - self (T- S)
30. 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.)
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Type of Lit: Realism
Personification
Play
31. 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.
Text - to - text (T- T)
Personal Point of View
Imagery
Reflection/response
32. 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.)
Type of Lit: Novel
Alliteration
Future tense
Preposition
33. 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.)
Flashback
homonym
Hyperbole
non - fiction
34. Describes a writer's feelings or attitudes toward the subject.
Verb
Communication
Exaggeration
Mental Point of View
35. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Preposition
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Idiom
Irregular adjective
36. (extension of reading stage) Reader used text knowledge to connect to personal knowledge of the reader's life - the lives of others - and the human condition.
Epic
Plot: Inciting force
homophone
Reflection/response
37. When the audience perceives something that a character in the literature does not know.
Dramatic Irony
Type of Lit: Essay
Setting
Type of Lit: Realism
38. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Plot: Exposition
Plot: Types of Conflict
Pace
Poetry
39. A real concrete object that is used to represent an idea or concept
Pace
Point of View
Symbol
Simple sentences
40. A hint of clue that the author provides to the reader to suggest what will happen next of at sometime in the future in the story or narrative.
Biography
Setting
Foreshadow
Article
41. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Subject Pronoun
Conjunction: Subordinating
Plot: Rising Action
Motif
42. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Personification
homophone
Proper adjective
Realistic fiction
43. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Comparative adjective
Tone
Poetry
Article
44. 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.
Conjunction
Pronoun
Personal pronouns
Decoding Skills
45. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Comparative adverbs
Plot: Rising Action
Literary Selections: Expository
Plural pronouns
46. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Compound - complex sentences
Conjunction: Subordinating
Setting
Simile
47. 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.
Comparative adverbs
Type of Lit: Tragedy
Type of Lit: Parable
Article
48. Compare 3 or more things.
Interjection
Superlative adverbs
grapheme
affix
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.
Plot: Rising Action
Compound - complex sentences
Plot: Climax
Type of Lit: Short Story
50. Express one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Flashback
Play
Second Person
Singular pronouns
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