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Praxis Literature
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1. A simple short story that is used to explain a brief - a moral - or a spiritual lesson
homonym
Positive adverbs
Idiom
Type of Lit: Parable
2. A play that uses dialogue to present its message to the audience and it meant to be performed.
Type of Lit: Drama
Conjunction: Coordinating
Type of Lit: Parable
Communication: Rituals
3. Is a group of words that tells position - direction - or how two ideas are related to one another.
Imagery
Preposition
Folktales
Demonstrative adjective
4. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Plot: Resolution
Mood
Proper adjective
5. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Indefinite adjective
Literary Selections: Expository
Interrogative
Preposition
6. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Situational Irony
Idiom
Possessive Pronoun
Type of Lit: Essay
7. A narrative poem about historical or legendary creatures
Epic
Mood
Subject Pronoun
Positive adjective
8. 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.
Positive adverbs
Flashback
Prepositional phrase
Type of Lit: Tragedy
9. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Fantasy
Complex sentences
Compound sentences
Common adjective
10. Is a scheme of how words are organized into patterns
Folktales
Mood
Regular verbs
Rhyme
11. Gives the reader approximate information and does not tell exactly how much or how many.
Schema
Indefinite adjective
Place adverbs
Present tense
12. The use of words - phrases - or other language structures that change the literal meaning.
Epic
Type of Lit: Parable
Type of Lit: Prose
Figurative Language
13. A narrative in which the characters and events represent an idea or truth about life in general.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Realistic fiction
Third Person
Plot: Falling action
14. How the details of a narrative are placed and how transitions are made within the narrative. Helps the story to move forward.
Pace
Situational Irony
Motif
Text - to - text (T- T)
15. The outcome of the conflict can be forecasted. This is the peak of the story and often included the greatest emotion.
Plot: Inciting force
Plot: Climax
Past tense
Imagery
16. 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.)
Adverb
Folktales
morpheme
Simile
17. (construction stage) Reader has contact with content - structure - genre - and the language of the text - using prior knowledge to build an understanding of the elements.
Historical Fiction
Initial
Text - to - world (T- W
Interrogative
18. Express one complete thought.
Onomatopoeia
Plot: Rising Action
Simple sentences
Superlative adverbs
19. Shows the action is happening now.
Tone
Present tense
Predicate adjective
Article
20. 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
Proper adjective
Comparative adjective
First Person
21. Is the perspective from which a story is told or a literary piece is written.
Point of View
Verbal Irony
Schema
Communication: Crisis
22. Compares 3 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The adjective usually ends in - est.
Plot: Rising Action
Second Person
Plot
Superlative adjective
23. A sentence that gives a command - often with you are the understood subject - and ends with a period.
Communication: Crisis
Communication: Encounters
Imperative
Interrogative
24. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Verbal Irony
Fantasy
Schema
Two - syllable adjective
25. 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
Foreshadow
Pronoun
Simile
26. 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.)
Alliteration
Past tense
Communication
Imperative
27. Possess 2 or more independent clauses and one or more dependent clauses.
morpheme
Analogy
Plot
Compound - complex sentences
28. Main problem in the story.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Degree adverbs
Plot: Conflict
Historical Fiction
29. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Verb
Science fiction
Fact
Predicate adjective
30. A string of events that builds up from the conflict - when then moves toward the climax.
Plot: Rising Action
Foreshadow
Conjunction
Type of Lit: Allegory
31. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Interrogative
Realistic fiction
Noun
Comparative adjective
32. When the author says one thing and means something else
fiction
affix
Setting
Verbal Irony
33. Is made up of 2 or more words and is hyphenated. (Ex. The action - packed movie held my attention.)
digraph
Interrogative
Text - to - world (T- W
Compound adjective
34. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Personal pronouns
Onomatopoeia
Singular pronouns
phoneme
35. Are conclusions reached on the basis of evidence and reasoning.
Inferences
affix
Conjunction: Coordinating
Adjective
36. (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.
Developing
Prepositional phrase
Idiom
Personification
37. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Symbol
Object Pronoun
Biography
First Person
38. Shows the action happened in the past or before (uses 'ed')
Possessive Pronoun
Past tense
Foreshadow
Third Person
39. 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.
Inferences
Text - to - text (T- T)
Object Pronoun
Noun
40. When the pronoun is used as the sentence's subject.
Epic
Compound - complex sentences
Subject Pronoun
Dramatic monologue
41. About someone's life (written by another person)
Setting
Biography
Communication: Crisis
Type of Lit: Drama
42. 2 vowels in which the sound begins at the first vowel and moves toward the sound of the second vowel. (Ex. snout=ou - boy=oy)
dipthong
Point of View
Superlative adjective
Situational Irony
43. Compare 3 or more things.
Communication: Rituals
Comparative adjective
Prepositional phrase
Superlative adverbs
44. 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
Folktales
Point of View
Type of Lit: Comedy
45. Describe a verb - adjective - or adverb.
Play
Decoding Skills
Positive adverbs
dipthong
46. A letter or letters that represent one phoneme; the smallest meaningful unit within a writing system. (Ex. cat=/c/ /a/ /t/
Imperative
grapheme
Possessive Pronoun
Irony
47. A theme of plot the could happen in real life
Subject Pronoun
Decoding Skills
Common adjective
Realistic fiction
48. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
Place adverbs
Complex sentences
Type of Lit: Realism
Type of Lit: Prose
49. A sentence that makes a statement or tells something and ends with a period.
Type of Lit: Allegory
Declarative
Imperative
Future tense
50. The main idea or the fundamental meaning of literary work that can be either plainly stated or implied.
Plural pronouns
Theme
Tone
Symbol
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