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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. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Lyric
Preposition
Novella
Refrain
2. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Foreshadowing
Assonance
Couplet
Jargon (diction)
3. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Stanza
Repetition
Clause
Semantics
4. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Rhetoric
Lyric
Verse
Phonology
5. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Euphemism
dramatic irony
Phonology
Camera view
6. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Clause
Legend
Lyric
Diction
7. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Iambic (foot)
Archaic (diction)
Adverb
Historical fiction
8. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Double speak
Imagery
Camera view
9. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Conflict
Camera view
Euphemism
Document (letter - diary - journal)
10. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Western
Enjambment
Omniscient
Profanity (diction)
11. 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
Holistic Scoring
verbal irony
Flashback
12. 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.
Double speak
Phonetics
Pronoun
Camera view
13. 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
Frame tale
Existentialism
Legend
verbal irony
14. 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
Fantasy
Epic
Mood
Satire
15. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Symbol
Narrative Point of View
Rhythm
Protagonist
16. U '
Heroic couplet
Verb
Adverb
Iambic (foot)
17. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Characterization
Genre
Dialect
Style
18. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Limited omniscient
Adjective
Paradox
Legend
19. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Meter
Assonance
Protagonist
20. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Folktale
Plot
Narration
21. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Caesura
Metaphor
Pragmatics
Ballad
22. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Folktale
Jargon
Antagonist
Foot
23. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Jargon (diction)
Adverb
Hubris
Meter
24. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Repetition
Genre
Diction
Verb
25. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Pronoun
Character
Fable
26. 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.
Free verse
Conjunction
Heroic couplet
Camera view
27. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Narrative Point of View
Pragmatics
Denotation
Meter
28. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Dialect
Antagonist
Voice
29. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Denotation
Repetition
Colloquialisms (diction)
Point of View
30. 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
Flashback
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Haiku
Point of View
31. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Legend
etymology
Repetition
32. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Character
Adverb
Camera view
33. 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.
Jargon
Parody
Fable
Novel
34. 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.
Adverb
verbal irony
Transcendentalism
Trochaic (foot)
35. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Plot
Alliteration
Tragedy
Rhetoric
36. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Tragedy
Symbol
dramatic irony
Malapropism
37. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Allusion
Phrase
Jargon (diction)
Haiku
38. 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.
Personification
Vulgarity
Archaic (diction)
Science fiction
39. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Camera view
Anapestic Meter
Couplet
40. 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
Omniscient
Repetition
Essay
Analogy
41. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Legend
Simile
Pragmatics
42. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Allegory
Aphorism
End rhyme
Setting
43. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Colloquialisms (diction)
Blank verse
Paradox
44. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Adverb
Short story
Hyperbole
45. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Sonnet
Anapestic
Romance
46. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Mood
First Person
Phonetics
Preposition
47. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Novel
End rhyme
Profanity (diction)
Imagery
48. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Aphorism
Profanity (diction)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Vulgarity
49. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Mystery
Foreshadowing
dramatic irony
Myth
50. Persuasive writing.
Foreshadowing
Rhetoric
Imagery
Syntax