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Praxis Literature
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1. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Short Story
Subject Pronoun
non - fiction
2. A speech or poem spoken by one character in order to share their innermost thought and feelings - which have been hidden throughout the story
Conjunction: Coordinating
Positive adjective
Text - to - text (T- T)
Dramatic monologue
3. The sense of feeling(s) in literary works. How the author presents or selects the setting - images - objects - and words in a story.
Onomatopoeia
Dialogue
Literary Selections: Narrative
Mood
4. 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.
Hyperbole
Communication
Foreshadow
Type of Lit: Myth
5. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Comparative adverbs
Text - to - self (T- S)
Autobiography
Comparative adjective
6. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Personal Point of View
Historical Fiction
digraph
Common adjective
7. 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.
Noun
Decoding Skills
Paraphrase
Two - syllable adjective
8. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
homonym
Alliteration
Critical Analysis
Autobiography
9. 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.
Positive adjective
Fantasy
Irony
Metaphor
10. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Flashback
Dialogue
Interjection
Common adjective
11. 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.
Epic
Conjunction: Correlative
Conjunction: Coordinating
Declarative
12. Main problem in the story.
Comparative adverbs
Plot: Resolution
Plot: Conflict
Theme
13. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Figurative Language
Plot: Resolution
Physical Point of View
Theme
14. Based upon a belief or a view and is not based upon evidence that can be verified.
Compound adjective
Comparative adjective
Communication: Rituals
Opinion
15. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Adjective
Communication
Type of Lit: Realism
Communication: Encounters
16. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Type of Lit: Parable
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Inferences
Subject Pronoun
17. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Degree adverbs
Literary Selections: Expository
Present tense
Time adverbs
18. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Plot
Figurative Language
Second Person
Type of Lit: Novel
19. 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
Indirect presentation
Predicate adjective
Dramatic Irony
Plot: Types of Conflict
20. Focuses on a mix of reality and the imaginary.
Prepositional phrase
Adverb
Science fiction
Tone
21. Attachment to a base or root word.
affix
Dramatic Irony
Mental Point of View
Verb
22. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Communication: Rituals
Regular verbs
Conjunction: Subordinating
Personal pronouns
23. Reference or resource works - textbooks - and informational materials most often used in subject or content areas.
Type of Lit: Drama
Prepositional phrase
Inferences
Literary Selections: Expository
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
Comparative adjective
Communication: Encounters
Indefinite adjective
25. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Type of Lit: Myth
Rhyme
Plural pronouns
morpheme
26. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Positive adverbs
Conjunction: Subordinating
Type of Lit: Tragedy
grapheme
27. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Second Person
Proper adjective
Plot: Rising Action
Figurative Language
28. When the author says one thing and means something else
Rhyme
Onomatopoeia
Verbal Irony
Proper adjective
29. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Hyperbole
Imperative
Positive adjective
Simple sentences
30. 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.
morpheme
Decoding Skills
Type of Lit: Myth
Place adverbs
31. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Plot: Climax
Realistic fiction
Literary elements
Dialogue
32. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Motif
Autobiography
Verbal Irony
Degree adverbs
33. (extending stage) Reader delves into the text - using background knowledge to build an understanding of the literary piece with new information being absorbed and used to ask questions.
Oxymoron
Autobiography
Developing
Hyperbole
34. A series of events occurring after the climax that bring the story to a conclusion
Plot: Falling action
Simple sentences
Time adverbs
Two - syllable adjective
35. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Plot: Climax
Interrogative
morpheme
Inferences
36. When a conjunction connects is used in pairs.
Folktales
Conjunction: Correlative
Metaphor
Type of Lit: Short Story
37. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
Manner adverbs
Interjection
Biography
Tone
38. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Fantasy
Analogy
Tone
Preposition
39. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Oxymoron
Schema
Imperative
Plot: Types of Conflict
40. 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.)
Type of Lit: Novel
homophone
Hyperbole
Adjective
41. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Rising Action
Indefinite adjective
Prepositional phrase
Conjunction: Subordinating
42. 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.
Folktales
Decoding Skills
Communication: Rituals
Fantasy
43. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Situational Irony
Type of Lit: Prose
homophone
Imagery
44. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Epic
digraph
Communication: Crisis
Plot: Types of Conflict
45. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Prose
Fact
Conjunction
46. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Epic
Foreshadow
Communication: Rituals
Article
47. Introduction of the story. Reader is introduced to the setting - tone - characters - purpose if the story
Irregular adjective
Exaggeration
Personal Point of View
Plot: Exposition
48. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Exclamatory
Point of View
Decoding Skills
Historical Fiction
49. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Symbol
Indefinite adjective
Verbal Irony
Preposition
50. 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.)
homonym
Superlative adverbs
Literary Selections: Narrative
Personification
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