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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 words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Rhythm
Participle
Tragedy
2. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Canto
Metaphor
Lyric
4 sentence types
3. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Lyric
Voice
Clause
Aphorism
4. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Limerick
Mystery
Oxymoron
5. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Folktale
Character
Genre
6. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Imagery
Allegory
Cliche
Tragedy
7. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Oxymoron
Euphemism
Adverb
Folktale
8. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Fantasy
Euphemism
Mood
Mystery
9. 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.'
Antagonist
Elegy
Assonance
Fable
10. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Personification
Camera view
Heroic couplet
Mood
11. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Irony
Hubris
Alliteration
12. 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
Preposition
Repetition
Frame tale
Iambic (foot)
13. 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
Third Person
Conjunction
Noun
Fairy Tale
14. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Couplet
Aphorism
Tragedy
15. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Sonnet
Archaic (diction)
Novella
16. U '
Noun
Third Person
Iambic (foot)
Colloquialisms (diction)
17. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Analogy
Refrain
Dialect
Omniscient
18. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Plot
Horror
Phonology
Lyric
19. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Phonetics
Participle
Dialect (diction)
Cliche
20. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Couplet
Fantasy
Semantics
Autobiography
21. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Canto
Onomatopoeia
Mood
Genre
22. 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
Connotation
Canto
Foot
Biography
23. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
4 sentence types
Euphemism
Simile
Characterization
24. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Western
Narrative Point of View
Satire
Verse
25. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Dialect
Phonetics
Ambiguity
26. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Antagonist
Pragmatics
Elegy
Camera view
27. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend
Phonology
Syntax
Dialect
Legend
28. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Slang (diction)
Sonnet
Phrase
Novella
29. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Preposition
Symbol
Jargon
Parody
30. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Moral
Omniscient
Character
Jargon (diction)
31. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Pragmatics
Meter
Metaphor
Participle
32. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Onomatopoeia
Genre
Setting
Novel
33. 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.
Phrase
Epic
Conflict
Science fiction
34. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Short story
Participle
Novel
Stanza
35. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Biography
Couplet
Stanza
36. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Existentialism
Imagery
Meter
Preposition
37. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Hyperbole
Characterization
Third Person
Essay
38. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Preposition
Ambiguity
Legend
Slang (diction)
39. 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.
Myth
Irony
Iambic (foot)
Jargon
40. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Character
Allusion
Denouement
Omniscient
41. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
4 sentence types
Transcendentalism
Profanity (diction)
Phonology
42. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Existentialism
Adjective
Mood
43. The perspective from which a story is told.
Couplet
Mystery
Imagery
Point of View
44. 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.
Camera view
Holistic Scoring
Mystery
Clause
45. Persuasive writing.
Haiku
Elegy
Rhetoric
Pragmatics
46. 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.
Diction
Myth
Conjunction
verbal irony
47. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Essay
Blank verse
Connotation
Short story
48. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Oxymoron
Syntax
Conflict
Archaic (diction)
49. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Clause
Folktale
Assonance
Style
50. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Hyperbole
Paradox
Clause
Ballad