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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 time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Repetition
Dactylic
Oxymoron
Setting
2. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Limited omniscient
Voice
Horror
Autobiography
3. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Hubris
Flashback
Onomatopoeia
Folktale
4. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Elegy
Stanza
Horror
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
Folktale
Style
Cliche
Rhythm
6. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Foot
Simile
Article
Genre
7. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Paradox
Verse
Conflict
Tragedy
8. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Hubris
Short story
4 sentence types
9. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Historical fiction
Hyperbole
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Semantics
10. 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
Protagonist
Point of View
Vulgarity
11. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Narration
Alliteration
Morphology
Horror
12. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Personification
Simile
Mood
Slang (diction)
13. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Denouement
Limerick
Ambiguity
Euphemism
14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Verb
Hubris
Pragmatics
Phonetics
15. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Connotation
Connosance
Moral
Plot
16. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Myth
Omniscient
Parody
Assonance
17. 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 -
Jargon (diction)
Ballad
Mystery
Transcendentalism
18. Persuasive writing.
etymology
Conflict
Rhetoric
Pragmatics
19. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Free verse
4 sentence types
Noun
Novella
20. U '
Iambic (foot)
Novel
Folktale
Vulgarity
21. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Allusion
Satire
Colloquialisms (diction)
Third Person
22. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Verb
Simile
Ballad
23. 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.'
Syntax
4 sentence types
Elegy
Verb
24. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Diction
Anapestic Meter
Foreshadowing
Noun
25. The study of the orgin of words
Morphology
Novella
etymology
Vulgarity
26. ' U U
Dactylic
Tone
Imagery
Denotation
27. 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.
Phonology
Legend
verbal irony
Fable
28. 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
Foreshadowing
verbal irony
Essay
Trochaic (foot)
29. U U '
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Anapestic
Allegory
30. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Allusion
Transcendentalism
Syntax
31. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
verbal irony
Satire
Rhetoric
Moral
32. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Tragedy
Jargon (diction)
etymology
33. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Verb
Simile
Plot
Transcendentalism
34. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Characterization
Diction
Symbol
Enjambment
35. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Iambic (foot)
Setting
Diction
Connotation
36. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Jargon
Symbol
Anapestic Meter
37. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Hubris
Antagonist
Rhetoric
Conflict
38. 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.
Slang (diction)
Preposition
Science fiction
Repetition
39. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Refrain
Internal rhyme
Participle
Stanza
40. 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.
Euphemism
verbal irony
Myth
Haiku
41. 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
Style
Enjambment
Profanity (diction)
42. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Heroic couplet
Allegory
Hyperbole
43. 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
Point of View
Meter
Frame tale
44. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Historical fiction
Foreshadowing
Connotation
Article
45. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Transcendentalism
Satire
Apostrophe
46. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Antagonist
Hyperbole
Rhythm
Lyric
47. 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
Tragedy
Enjambment
Allegory
Foot
48. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Syntax
Aphorism
Characterization
Protagonist
49. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Adjective
Mystery
Rhythm
Anecdote
50. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Double speak
Imagery
Novella
Assonance