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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






2. 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.






3. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






4. 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






5. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






6. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






7. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






8. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






9. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.






10. 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






11. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






12. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






13. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






14. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






15. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






16. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






17. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.






18. The time and place in which a story occurs.






19. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






20. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






21. A story about a person's life written by another person.






22. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






23. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






24. U U '






25. The study of the structure of words.






26. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






27. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






28. The main character or hero of a written work.






29. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






30. An extended fictional prose narrative.






31. 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.






32. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






33. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






34. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






35. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






36. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






37. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






38. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






39. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






40. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






41. The study of the meaning in language.






42. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






43. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






44. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






45. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






46. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






47. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






49. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






50. 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.'