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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 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.
Onomatopoeia
etymology
Denouement
Adjective
2. 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
Essay
Flashback
Fable
Aphorism
3. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Simile
Jargon (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
4. 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
verbal irony
Profanity (diction)
Foot
Romance
5. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch
Conflict
Novella
Folktale
Denotation
6. The study of the structure of words.
Elegy
Morphology
Archaic (diction)
Setting
7. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Repetition
First Person
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Clause
8. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Morphology
Archaic (diction)
Parody
Phrase
9. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Jargon (diction)
Legend
Enjambment
Document (letter - diary - journal)
10. A person or being in a narrative
Analogy
Enjambment
Biography
Character
11. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Participle
Rhythm
Denouement
Fairy Tale
12. 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.
Frame tale
Irony
Haiku
Iambic (foot)
13. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Free verse
Plot
Archaic (diction)
Haiku
14. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Diction
Frame tale
Iambic (foot)
Denouement
15. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Anecdote
Parody
Ballad
Archaic (diction)
16. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Phonetics
Tragedy
Internal rhyme
Refrain
17. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Foreshadowing
Conjunction
Double speak
Mood
18. 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.
Tragedy
Preposition
Heroic couplet
Fable
19. 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
Dialect
Jargon (diction)
Foreshadowing
20. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Verse
Third Person
Meter
21. 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.
Article
Satire
Apostrophe
Stanza
22. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Hyperbole
Aphorism
Enjambment
23. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Pragmatics
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Alliteration
Cliche
24. The telling of a story.
Foot
Enjambment
Rhetoric
Narration
25. 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.
Genre
Myth
Analogy
Metaphor
26. 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 -
Conjunction
Genre
Article
Transcendentalism
27. The main character or hero of a written work.
Simile
Protagonist
Slang (diction)
Plot
28. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Fantasy
Jargon
Participle
Alliteration
29. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Flashback
Narrative Point of View
Connosance
30. 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.'
Western
Horror
Elegy
Euphemism
31. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Blank verse
Free verse
Allusion
Allegory
32. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Science fiction
Setting
Essay
Connosance
33. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Antagonist
Jargon (diction)
Assonance
34. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Morphology
Plot
Phrase
Alliteration
35. The perspective from which a story is told.
Alliteration
Frame tale
Point of View
Denouement
36. 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
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
Fantasy
Connosance
37. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Anapestic Meter
Heroic couplet
Oxymoron
Antagonist
38. 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.
Adjective
Anapestic Meter
Science fiction
Personification
39. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Apostrophe
End rhyme
Imagery
Haiku
40. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Analogy
Anecdote
Anapestic
Dialect
41. 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
Denouement
Characterization
Frame tale
Verb
42. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Fantasy
Verse
Frame tale
Moral
43. 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.
Metaphor
Canto
Haiku
Pronoun
44. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Romance
Dialect (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Western
45. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Omniscient
Dialect
Flashback
Holistic Scoring
46. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Sonnet
Analogy
Phonetics
Denotation
47. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
Mood
Elegy
Clause
48. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Assonance
Legend
Imagery
49. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Third Person
Analogy
Couplet
Blank verse
50. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Rhetoric
Slang (diction)
Novella
Historical fiction