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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. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Euphemism
Heroic couplet
Slang (diction)
Jargon (diction)
2. 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.
Haiku
Pronoun
Participle
Rhythm
3. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Personification
Alliteration
Rhythm
Antagonist
4. 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
Pronoun
Holistic Scoring
Hyperbole
5. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Internal rhyme
Conflict
End rhyme
Connosance
6. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Article
Genre
Allegory
Caesura
7. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Fable
Plot
Onomatopoeia
First Person
8. 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
Antagonist
Sonnet
Western
Mood
9. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Flashback
Stanza
Historical fiction
Biography
10. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Dialect
Pragmatics
Frame tale
Malapropism
11. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Transcendentalism
Refrain
Elegy
Ambiguity
12. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Adverb
Existentialism
Verse
Vulgarity
13. The main character or hero of a written work.
Adverb
Flashback
Euphemism
Protagonist
14. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Lyric
Aphorism
Trochaic (foot)
Pragmatics
15. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Paradox
Dialect (diction)
Assonance
Verb
16. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Free verse
Cliche
Haiku
Apostrophe
17. 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
Couplet
Participle
Rhetoric
18. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Novella
Clause
Existentialism
Couplet
19. 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.
Verb
Trochaic (foot)
Adverb
Vulgarity
20. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Trochaic (foot)
Oxymoron
Moral
Antagonist
21. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Frame tale
Mystery
Denouement
Hyperbole
22. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Denotation
Personification
Pragmatics
Blank verse
23. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Slang (diction)
Protagonist
Conjunction
Jargon (diction)
24. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Voice
Jargon
Anecdote
Connotation
25. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Paradox
Biography
Pragmatics
Hyperbole
26. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.
Antagonist
Existentialism
Irony
Phrase
27. The writer says one thing and means another
Heroic couplet
Holistic Scoring
Denouement
verbal irony
28. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Foreshadowing
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Conjunction
29. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Couplet
Western
Characterization
Horror
30. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Antagonist
Euphemism
Camera view
Personification
31. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Apostrophe
Denouement
Lyric
32. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Narration
Couplet
Anapestic Meter
Mood
33. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Diction
Holistic Scoring
Enjambment
Frame tale
34. U '
Rhetoric
Holistic Scoring
Iambic (foot)
Dialect
35. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Anapestic Meter
Novella
Euphemism
Noun
36. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Plot
Antagonist
Limerick
37. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Article
Verb
Character
Foot
38. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Foreshadowing
Tragedy
Setting
Parody
39. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Dialect
Trochaic (foot)
Metaphor
Narrative Point of View
40. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Phrase
Simile
Fantasy
Stanza
41. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Meter
Setting
Omniscient
dramatic irony
42. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Epic
Alliteration
Metaphor
Pragmatics
43. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Phonology
44. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Western
Rhythm
Euphemism
Article
45. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Epic
Syntax
Onomatopoeia
46. 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.
Romance
Meter
Science fiction
4 sentence types
47. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Epic
Stanza
Hyperbole
Cliche
48. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Profanity (diction)
Third Person
Legend
Foot
49. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Blank verse
Short story
Refrain
Flashback
50. The main section of a long poem.
Verb
Euphemism
Canto
Slang (diction)