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Praxis Literature
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1. 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.)
Conjunction: Coordinating
Simile
Pace
Play
2. A character's traits are exposed by actions and speech.
Irony
Indirect presentation
Manner adverbs
Prepositional phrase
3. Distinct unit of sound found within language that helps distinguish utterances from one another.
Communication: Rituals
Simple sentences
Irony
phoneme
4. 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.
Literary Selections: Narrative
Literary Selections: Expository
Realistic fiction
Dialogue
5. A sentence that expresses strong feeling or shows surprise and ends with an exclamation point.
Critical Analysis
Text - to - text (T- T)
morpheme
Exclamatory
6. Writing in which the information is presented as fact or as truth.
non - fiction
Science fiction
Tone
Superlative adjective
7. Is the process of understanding that letters in text represent the sounds (phonemes) in speech.
Decoding Skills
Verb
Superlative adjective
affix
8. Restating in different words
Exaggeration
Article
Paraphrase
Critical Analysis
9. About the author's own personal life (written by the author)
Present tense
First Person
Plot: Falling action
Autobiography
10. Statements or ideas that are able to be verified and supported with evidence.
Fact
Inferences
Compound adjective
Singular pronouns
11. Smallest meaningful unit of speech - which can no longer be divided. (Ex. in - come - on).
morpheme
Plot: Inciting force
Plot: Climax
Irregular adjective
12. A sentence that asks a question and ends with a question mark.
Plot: Resolution
Interrogative
Tone
Communication: Deviants
13. Attachment to a base or root word.
Fact
Type of Lit: Tragedy
affix
Physical Point of View
14. Shows that the action will happen (uses 'will')
Future tense
non - fiction
Folktales
homonym
15. Is the sequential order of events within a narrative
Plot: Types of Conflict
Text - to - text (T- T)
Setting
Plot
16. Occur when the adverb tells how often - when - or how long.
Time adverbs
Conjunction
First Person
Plot: Rising Action
17. Contain 2 or more single sentences which are joined by a conjunction and/or punctuation.
Complex sentences
Compound adjective
Setting
Compound sentences
18. 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).
homophone
Mystery
Motif
Autobiography
19. Contains the preposition - the object of the preposition and the modifiers of the object.
Comparative adverbs
Superlative adverbs
Prepositional phrase
fiction
20. A literary work that is in ordinary form and used the familiar structure of spoken language - sentence after sentence.
Poetry
Motif
Predicate adjective
Type of Lit: Prose
21. 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.
Plot: Inciting force
Imagery
Exaggeration
Simple sentences
22. When society is faced with an issue of concern or a situation - people must cooperate and make successful responses.
Dialogue
Past tense
Communication: Crisis
Onomatopoeia
23. 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.)
Common adjective
Idiom
Mystery
Flashback
24. 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
Adjective
dipthong
Oxymoron
Declarative
25. About someone's life (written by another person)
Play
Plot: Falling action
Epic
Biography
26. A word the joins together words or groups of words.
Plot: Types of Conflict
Future tense
Rhyme
Conjunction
27. Words that have the same pronunciation and spelling - but have different meanings. (Ex. mean - rude - mean - average - or mean - define)
Onomatopoeia
homonym
Plot: Conflict
Situational Irony
28. When the pronoun is the object of a verb or prepositional phrase.
Subject Pronoun
Decoding Skills
Present tense
Object Pronoun
29. (examining stage) Reader reflects and reacts to the literary work by judging - evaluating - and relating to the literature.
Critical Analysis
Comparative adjective
Preposition
Compound - complex sentences
30. Occur when the adverbs tells where - to where - or from where.
homophone
Type of Lit: Novel
Place adverbs
Positive adjective
31. Singles out a specific noun; this that - these - those (a noun must immediately follow).
Plot
Demonstrative adjective
Plot: Rising Action
Type of Lit: Fable
32. A fictional narrative of book length in which characters and plot are developed in a somewhat realistic manner.
Initial
Type of Lit: Novel
Simple sentences
Possessive Pronoun
33. Refers to the position in time and space in which an author describes his or her views or material.
Conjunction: Subordinating
Physical Point of View
Type of Lit: Realism
Declarative
34. Is the feeling or attitude that is conveyed by a narrative or selection.
Present tense
Fantasy
Literary elements
Tone
35. Follows a linking verb and describes the subject.
Symbol
Predicate adjective
Text - to - world (T- W
Verbal Irony
36. 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.
Text - to - world (T- W
Plot: Exposition
Compound adjective
Proper adjective
37. 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)
Type of Lit: Essay
Inferences
dipthong
Superlative adverbs
38. Compares 2 or more people - places - things - ideas - concepts - or characteristics. The event usually ends in - er.
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Folktales
Pronoun
Comparative adjective
39. Characters or events trigger the central conflict
Dramatic monologue
Plot: Inciting force
Type of Lit: Novel
Verbal Irony
40. (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.
dipthong
Conjunction
Developing
Communication: Encounters
41. Requires the words more/most of less/least to express comparison.
Interrogative
Three (or more) syllable adjective
Dramatic Irony
Point of View
42. Shows comparison by the suffixes (er/est) or modifiers (more/most).
Two - syllable adjective
Imperative
Pace
Verbal Irony
43. 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.)
Exaggeration
First Person
Hyperbole
Third Person
44. 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.
Simple sentences
Plural pronouns
Communication: Rituals
Paraphrase
45. (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.
Plot: Climax
homophone
Initial
Alliteration
46. Is a discrepancy between the expected results and actual results.
Simple sentences
Autobiography
Verb
Situational Irony
47. Replace nouns in a sentence.
Initial
Personal pronouns
Comparative adjective
Reflection/response
48. Includes the time - place(s) - physical details - and the circumstances or events in which a situation occurs.
Dialogue
Positive adverbs
Setting
Type of Lit: Fable
49. Refer to the specific and recognizable characteristics of the text of literary work
Literary elements
Setting
Personification
grapheme
50. 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.
Type of Lit: Fable
Type of Lit: Essay
Past tense
Literary Selections: Expository
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