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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 stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
situation irony
Preposition
Essay
2. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
First Person
Participle
Metaphor
Rhetoric
3. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Metaphor
Jargon (diction)
Legend
Denotation
4. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl
Profanity (diction)
Lyric
Short story
Genre
5. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Couplet
Cliche
Connosance
Archaic (diction)
6. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Plot
Folktale
Mood
7. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Vulgarity
Novel
End rhyme
Denouement
8. 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.
Haiku
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Refrain
Epic
9. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Essay
Iambic (foot)
Genre
Free verse
10. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses
Verse
Western
Sonnet
Euphemism
11. The telling of a story.
Haiku
Voice
Style
Narration
12. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Point of View
Phrase
Limited omniscient
Connosance
13. 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
Romance
Legend
Ambiguity
Horror
14. 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
Profanity (diction)
Folktale
Voice
Semantics
15. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Blank verse
Antagonist
Characterization
Sonnet
16. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Caesura
Third Person
Style
Biography
17. 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.
Euphemism
Conjunction
Dactylic
Refrain
18. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Phrase
Novella
Verse
Mystery
19. The perspective from which a story is told.
Symbol
Point of View
Ballad
Anapestic
20. 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
Analogy
Western
Parody
End rhyme
21. 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
Phonology
Euphemism
Denotation
Dialect
22. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Ballad
Blank verse
Enjambment
Frame tale
23. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Iambic (foot)
Fairy Tale
Euphemism
24. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Internal rhyme
Tone
Phonetics
Biography
25. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Euphemism
Science fiction
Imagery
26. 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
Caesura
Double speak
Apostrophe
Antagonist
27. 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
Phrase
Participle
Epic
Transcendentalism
28. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Article
Adverb
Phonetics
Clause
29. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Iambic (foot)
Allusion
Short story
Colloquialisms (diction)
30. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Article
Pronoun
Parody
Moral
31. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Paradox
Antagonist
Profanity (diction)
Archaic (diction)
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Narrative Point of View
Denotation
Pragmatics
33. ' U U
Adjective
Vulgarity
Dactylic
Cliche
34. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Folktale
Aphorism
Third Person
Rhythm
35. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Blank verse
Couplet
Repetition
Free verse
36. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Existentialism
Refrain
4 sentence types
Omniscient
37. 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
Assonance
Archaic (diction)
Antagonist
38. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Jargon
Morphology
Clause
Verb
39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Horror
Protagonist
Euphemism
Voice
40. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Satire
Meter
Tragedy
41. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Couplet
Metaphor
Legend
Autobiography
42. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Western
Cliche
Ambiguity
Allegory
43. 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.
Essay
Stanza
Rhetoric
Slang (diction)
44. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Clause
Hyperbole
End rhyme
Novel
45. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
End rhyme
Limerick
Free verse
46. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Denotation
Essay
47. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Phonetics
Frame tale
Slang (diction)
48. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Couplet
Autobiography
dramatic irony
Slang (diction)
49. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Tragedy
Historical fiction
Preposition
Meter
50. A person or being in a narrative
Vulgarity
Repetition
Character
Elegy