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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. 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
Oxymoron
Flashback
Science fiction
Type of Lit: Prose
2. Is a word placed before a noun - which introduces the noun as specific (the) or nonspecific (a - an).
Tone
Article
Exaggeration
digraph
3. 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.
Fact
First Person
Pronoun
Communication: Rituals
4. 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.
Type of Lit: Fable
Second Person
Type of Lit: Tragedy
First Person
5. Comparison of similar objects - which suggests that since the objects are similar in some ways they will probably be alike in other ways.
Figurative Language
Analogy
Predicate adjective
Direct presentation
6. Is formed by a proper noun and is always capitalized.
Imagery
Comparative adjective
Proper adjective
Plot: Conflict
7. Connection occurs when students can relate their own lives or make very personal connections to what is currently being read.
Mystery
Positive adverbs
Text - to - self (T- S)
Irregular adjective
8. Life is dealt with in a humorous manner - often poking fun at people's mistakes.
Type of Lit: Comedy
Plot: Inciting force
Epic
Noun
9. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Compound adjective
Plot: Falling action
Personal pronouns
Past tense
10. Follow a distinct pattern and are predictable
Physical Point of View
Regular verbs
Schema
Paraphrase
11. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
non - fiction
Hyperbole
First Person
Complex sentences
12. Is any adjective that is not proper and in not capitalized.
Future tense
Type of Lit: Myth
Symbol
Common adjective
13. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Rising Action
Comparative adjective
Proper adjective
Three (or more) syllable adjective
14. 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.
Conjunction: Correlative
Exclamatory
Flashback
Literary Selections: Narrative
15. 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.)
Hyperbole
Compound sentences
Folktales
Regular verbs
16. The use of a recurring object - element - concept - word - phrase - or structure in order to draw the readers' attention to a specific point the author is trying to make.
Degree adverbs
Conjunction
Dramatic Irony
Motif
17. Express more than one person - place - thing - concept - idea - or characteristics.
Plural pronouns
Regular verbs
Conjunction
Compound sentences
18. Stories passed down from generation to generation that includes fables - myths - legends - and tall tales.
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Parable
Folktales
Flashback
19. (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.
Poetry
Developing
Two - syllable adjective
Idiom
20. A comparison of two unrelated objects - concepts - or ideas through the use of the words like or as. (Ex. My words trickled off my tongue like raindrops on a windshield.)
Compound adjective
morpheme
Simile
Initial
21. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Object Pronoun
Plot: Conflict
morpheme
Idiom
22. Occur when the adverb tells how much or how little.
Degree adverbs
Poetry
Irony
Hyperbole
23. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Article
Imperative
Plot: Climax
homonym
24. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Theme
Science fiction
Declarative
25. 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.
Rhyme
Pronoun
Object Pronoun
Plot: Exposition
26. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Historical Fiction
homonym
Epic
Plot: Inciting force
27. 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.
Dramatic Irony
Flashback
Possessive Pronoun
Text - to - text (T- T)
28. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
Mood
Future tense
Type of Lit: Comedy
Type of Lit: Parable
29. 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.)
Foreshadow
Personification
Degree adverbs
Plot
30. 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.
Biography
Imagery
Simple sentences
Opinion
31. The background knowledge or experiences that students may bring with them into the reading of a text.
Tone
Pronoun
Comparative adverbs
Schema
32. When a conjunction connects two clauses that are not equal or the same type; it connects a dependent to an independent clause.
Future tense
Conjunction: Subordinating
dipthong
Type of Lit: Realism
33. 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.
Imagery
Compound adjective
Epic
Text - to - world (T- W
34. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Plot: Climax
Direct presentation
Type of Lit: Myth
Literary elements
35. (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.
Reflection/response
Plot
Folktales
Science fiction
36. Restating in different words
Paraphrase
Simple sentences
Alliteration
Realistic fiction
37. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Autobiography
Personification
Text - to - self (T- S)
38. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Possessive Pronoun
Epic
First Person
Two - syllable adjective
39. 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.
Type of Lit: Prose
Personal Point of View
Conjunction: Coordinating
Mystery
40. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Article
Indefinite adjective
Literary Selections: Narrative
Exaggeration
41. Attachment to a base or root word.
Biography
affix
Metaphor
Two - syllable adjective
42. Is a word or phrase used to show strong emotion or surprise. (Ex. Hey!; Oh no - a shark!)
Literary Selections: Narrative
Interjection
Play
Second Person
43. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Future tense
Conjunction: Correlative
Verb
Physical Point of View
44. Shows the action is happening now.
Present tense
Singular pronouns
Literary elements
Conjunction: Subordinating
45. 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
Flashback
Pronoun
Reflection/response
46. A writing in which the reality of life is shown.
Idiom
Type of Lit: Realism
Plot
Three (or more) syllable adjective
47. 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.
Regular verbs
Fantasy
Plot: Falling action
Third Person
48. A short story - often with animals as the main characters - that teachers a moral or lesson to the reader
Personification
Article
Type of Lit: Fable
Plural pronouns
49. Occur when the adverbs tells how something is done (often ends in - ly).
affix
First Person
Manner adverbs
Irregular adjective
50. 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.)
Declarative
Fantasy
Common adjective
Metaphor