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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 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.
Article
Pronoun
Adverb
Short story
2. ' U
Noun
Trochaic (foot)
Iambic (foot)
Denouement
3. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Diction
Profanity (diction)
Existentialism
Hyperbole
4. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Allegory
Aphorism
Diction
verbal irony
5. 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.
Connotation
Setting
Romance
Existentialism
6. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Western
Denotation
Morphology
Romance
7. 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.
Refrain
Mystery
Hyperbole
Adjective
8. 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
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Euphemism
Novella
Pragmatics
9. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Hubris
Paradox
Mood
10. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
4 sentence types
Meter
Repetition
Rhetoric
11. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Dialect (diction)
Pragmatics
Moral
Limited omniscient
12. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Ballad
Colloquialisms (diction)
Mystery
Narrative Point of View
13. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Transcendentalism
Irony
Pronoun
14. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Blank verse
Hubris
Analogy
Phonology
15. The perspective from which a story is told.
Pragmatics
Verb
Oxymoron
Point of View
16. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Conjunction
Assonance
Enjambment
etymology
17. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Jargon (diction)
Dialect
Flashback
Refrain
18. 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
Moral
Lyric
Epic
Syntax
19. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Caesura
Profanity (diction)
Alliteration
20. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Voice
Slang (diction)
Myth
Analogy
21. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Ambiguity
dramatic irony
Syntax
Diction
22. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Omniscient
Historical fiction
Flashback
Essay
23. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Diction
Conflict
Omniscient
Preposition
24. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Preposition
Foreshadowing
situation irony
Anecdote
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.
Novel
Alliteration
Holistic Scoring
Myth
26. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Malapropism
Third Person
etymology
27. 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
Participle
Euphemism
Jargon (diction)
Novella
28. The study of the structure of words.
Flashback
Satire
Denouement
Morphology
29. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Assonance
Adverb
Refrain
30. 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
Protagonist
Profanity (diction)
First Person
Enjambment
31. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Dactylic
Setting
Flashback
32. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Pronoun
Paradox
Narration
33. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Blank verse
situation irony
Antagonist
34. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Analogy
First Person
Pronoun
Rhythm
35. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Science fiction
Jargon
Dactylic
Plot
36. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Myth
Mood
Fable
Blank verse
37. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Archaic (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Genre
Flashback
38. 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
Autobiography
verbal irony
Myth
Fantasy
39. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Clause
Paradox
Allegory
Plot
40. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
verbal irony
Lyric
Preposition
Internal rhyme
41. 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
dramatic irony
Style
Epic
Apostrophe
42. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Verb
Canto
Rhythm
Style
43. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Denotation
Anapestic
Connosance
Rhythm
44. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Phonology
Parody
Autobiography
45. 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
Romance
Genre
Plot
46. 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
Participle
Ballad
Dialect
Romance
47. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Irony
dramatic irony
Camera view
Semantics
48. 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.'
Verb
Ambiguity
Voice
Elegy
49. 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
Dialect
Iambic (foot)
Elegy
50. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Dactylic
Analogy
Verb
Omniscient