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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Personification
Iambic (foot)
Romance
Onomatopoeia
2. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E
Denotation
Fantasy
Syntax
Simile
3. The writer says one thing and means another
Western
Diction
Tone
verbal irony
4. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Setting
Pronoun
Clause
Genre
5. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Analogy
Repetition
situation irony
6. ' U U
Dactylic
Rhythm
Heroic couplet
Allegory
7. The study of the orgin of words
Morphology
etymology
Metaphor
Foot
8. The study of the structure of sentences.
Haiku
Syntax
Rhythm
Jargon (diction)
9. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Mystery
Clause
Epic
Limited omniscient
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Style
Colloquialisms (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Trochaic (foot)
11. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Limerick
Anecdote
Meter
Symbol
12. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Essay
Allegory
Article
Character
13. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Hyperbole
Fable
Euphemism
14. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Novella
Noun
Ambiguity
Elegy
15. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'
Elegy
Dialect (diction)
Stanza
Refrain
16. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Adverb
Imagery
Aphorism
Dialect (diction)
17. The main character or hero of a written work.
Preposition
Protagonist
Dialect (diction)
Jargon
18. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Flashback
Meter
Metaphor
19. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl
Short story
Iambic (foot)
Phrase
Conflict
20. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Mood
Allegory
Biography
Caesura
21. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Foreshadowing
Phrase
Stanza
Pronoun
22. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Mystery
4 sentence types
Jargon (diction)
Camera view
23. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Romance
Denotation
Syntax
24. A person or being in a narrative
Sonnet
Ambiguity
Dialect
Character
25. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Setting
Epic
Novella
Parody
26. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Point of View
Setting
Third Person
First Person
27. The perspective from which a story is told.
Semantics
Point of View
Allusion
Science fiction
28. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Satire
Setting
Blank verse
29. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Connotation
First Person
Genre
Antagonist
30. The study of the structure of words.
Anecdote
Morphology
Diction
Setting
31. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Dialect
dramatic irony
Mood
Noun
32. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.
Existentialism
Protagonist
Fantasy
Camera view
33. U '
Legend
Iambic (foot)
Meter
Clause
34. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Connosance
Verb
Caesura
Fairy Tale
35. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Sonnet
etymology
situation irony
Narrative Point of View
36. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Jargon (diction)
Foreshadowing
End rhyme
Trochaic (foot)
37. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Jargon (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Noun
Flashback
38. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.
Free verse
Rhythm
Antagonist
Pronoun
39. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Historical fiction
Imagery
Antagonist
Fantasy
40. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Connosance
Autobiography
End rhyme
Mood
41. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Rhythm
Omniscient
Biography
42. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
4 sentence types
Fantasy
Verb
Phonology
43. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Epic
Morphology
Anapestic Meter
44. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Heroic couplet
Irony
Foreshadowing
Characterization
45. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Setting
Third Person
Ballad
Western
46. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Myth
Clause
Aphorism
Symbol
47. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Caesura
Simile
Noun
Archaic (diction)
48. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Sonnet
Double speak
Connosance
49. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Character
Antagonist
Science fiction
Narration
50. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Lyric
Novel
Simile
Morphology