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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 literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Narrative Point of View
Tone
situation irony
Flashback
2. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Denouement
Moral
Clause
Internal rhyme
3. A person or being in a narrative
Character
Meter
Limited omniscient
Parody
4. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Autobiography
Legend
Fantasy
Rhythm
5. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Folktale
Denouement
Allegory
Lyric
6. 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.
Canto
Conflict
Myth
Novella
7. 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
Frame tale
Setting
Romance
Omniscient
8. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Adjective
Symbol
Lyric
9. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Semantics
Pragmatics
Epic
Setting
10. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Conjunction
Euphemism
Antagonist
Elegy
11. 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
Epic
Foot
Western
Third Person
12. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Allegory
Semantics
Ambiguity
Omniscient
13. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Canto
Denouement
Antagonist
Myth
14. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Tone
Hyperbole
Paradox
Dialect
15. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Metaphor
Cliche
Stanza
Jargon
16. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Anecdote
Heroic couplet
Euphemism
Mood
17. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Heroic couplet
Mood
Aphorism
Refrain
18. 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
Western
Irony
Tragedy
Free verse
19. 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
Jargon (diction)
Double speak
End rhyme
Enjambment
20. 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.
Fable
Clause
Metaphor
Euphemism
21. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Diction
End rhyme
Setting
Fairy Tale
22. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Simile
Euphemism
Novella
Narrative Point of View
23. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Essay
Jargon
Fairy Tale
Refrain
24. 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.
Camera view
Participle
Haiku
Antagonist
25. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Analogy
verbal irony
dramatic irony
Anapestic
26. The writer says one thing and means another
Point of View
Ballad
verbal irony
Onomatopoeia
27. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Clause
Oxymoron
Dialect (diction)
Jargon
28. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Mood
Profanity (diction)
Plot
Euphemism
29. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Apostrophe
Foot
Syntax
Heroic couplet
30. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Stanza
Iambic (foot)
Jargon (diction)
Jargon
31. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Science fiction
Dialect
Mood
Slang (diction)
32. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Horror
Style
Limited omniscient
33. 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.
Moral
Setting
Canto
Existentialism
34. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Historical fiction
Rhetoric
Phonetics
Setting
35. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Article
Conflict
Limited omniscient
Ambiguity
36. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Limited omniscient
Syntax
Anapestic Meter
First Person
37. 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.
Narration
Genre
Plot
Horror
38. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Essay
Characterization
Euphemism
Setting
39. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Jargon
Rhetoric
Genre
Verse
40. 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
Syntax
Archaic (diction)
Folktale
Plot
41. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Simile
Antagonist
Setting
Existentialism
42. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Personification
Myth
Mood
Couplet
43. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Vulgarity
Phonetics
Article
Short story
44. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
Phonetics
Vulgarity
45. 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.
Cliche
Syntax
Apostrophe
Stanza
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.
Anapestic
Conjunction
Free verse
Mystery
47. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Point of View
Limerick
Phrase
48. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.
Elegy
Hyperbole
Point of View
Phonetics
49. 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.
Antagonist
Hubris
Adverb
Hyperbole
50. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Style
Pragmatics
Trochaic (foot)
Third Person