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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Essay
Camera view
Alliteration
2. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Mood
Short story
Antagonist
Noun
3. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Rhythm
Jargon
Elegy
Refrain
4. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t
Point of View
Foot
Denouement
Plot
5. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.
Euphemism
Syntax
Conjunction
Internal rhyme
6. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Aphorism
Allusion
Phonology
Short story
7. 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 .
Mystery
Genre
Dialect
Caesura
8. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Internal rhyme
Noun
Phonetics
Foreshadowing
9. 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
Vulgarity
Western
Hyperbole
Simile
10. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Denouement
Dialect (diction)
Style
Conjunction
11. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Limited omniscient
Vulgarity
Malapropism
Setting
12. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Frame tale
Heroic couplet
Satire
13. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Plot
Biography
Moral
Tone
14. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Euphemism
Symbol
Phonetics
15. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes
Metaphor
Jargon
Myth
Enjambment
16. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Fairy Tale
Phonology
Semantics
Biography
17. The telling of a story.
Trochaic (foot)
Narration
Profanity (diction)
Novella
18. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Simile
Essay
Euphemism
Assonance
19. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Conflict
Semantics
Lyric
Romance
20. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Anecdote
Dialect
Iambic (foot)
Fairy Tale
21. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Legend
Limerick
Lyric
22. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Slang (diction)
Heroic couplet
Conflict
23. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Historical fiction
Syntax
Cliche
dramatic irony
24. 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.
Personification
Cliche
Analogy
Irony
25. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Style
Archaic (diction)
Adjective
Enjambment
26. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Dialect
Omniscient
Alliteration
27. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Character
Narrative Point of View
Myth
28. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Transcendentalism
Myth
Foreshadowing
Camera view
29. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
Dactylic
Free verse
30. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Genre
Hubris
Fantasy
Assonance
31. U U '
Anecdote
Moral
Anapestic
Colloquialisms (diction)
32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon (diction)
Symbol
Jargon
Epic
33. The main section of a long poem.
dramatic irony
Canto
Analogy
Science fiction
34. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
etymology
Canto
Horror
dramatic irony
35. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Connotation
First Person
Colloquialisms (diction)
Narration
36. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Ballad
Personification
Myth
Double speak
37. 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
Horror
Pronoun
Plot
38. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Novel
Genre
Iambic (foot)
First Person
39. 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.
Free verse
Adverb
Holistic Scoring
Euphemism
40. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Horror
Characterization
Adjective
Myth
41. 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.
Adjective
Folktale
Ballad
Refrain
42. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
Clause
43. The main character or hero of a written work.
Repetition
Protagonist
Anecdote
Setting
44. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Anapestic Meter
Fairy Tale
Onomatopoeia
Free verse
45. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Dialect
Novel
Metaphor
Conflict
46. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Novel
Voice
Symbol
47. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Satire
Voice
Meter
Tragedy
48. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
dramatic irony
Short story
Profanity (diction)
Morphology
49. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Anecdote
Characterization
Omniscient
50. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Fairy Tale
Historical fiction
Plot