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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. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Style
Colloquialisms (diction)
Haiku
Canto
2. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Syntax
Historical fiction
Epic
3. 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
Denouement
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Profanity (diction)
Sonnet
4. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Anapestic
Anapestic Meter
Euphemism
Enjambment
5. U U '
Anapestic
Preposition
Ambiguity
Document (letter - diary - journal)
6. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Syntax
First Person
Hubris
Characterization
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
Genre
Point of View
Frame tale
Colloquialisms (diction)
8. The perspective from which a story is told.
Article
Phonology
Narration
Point of View
9. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Alliteration
Diction
Onomatopoeia
Cliche
10. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Antagonist
Heroic couplet
Stanza
11. 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.
Science fiction
Romance
Archaic (diction)
verbal irony
12. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.
Irony
Setting
Moral
Haiku
13. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Assonance
dramatic irony
Cliche
Anapestic Meter
14. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Frame tale
Dialect (diction)
Verse
Flashback
15. U '
Phrase
Verb
Iambic (foot)
Elegy
16. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Jargon (diction)
Euphemism
Caesura
Allegory
17. The telling of a story.
Fairy Tale
Narration
Existentialism
Alliteration
18. 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.
Symbol
Sonnet
Adverb
Verse
19. Persuasive writing.
Voice
Rhetoric
Tragedy
Simile
20. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Narrative Point of View
Omniscient
Denotation
21. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
End rhyme
Tone
Transcendentalism
Limerick
22. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Adjective
Anapestic Meter
Limerick
Vulgarity
23. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Heroic couplet
Short story
Internal rhyme
Phonology
24. 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 .
Epic
Caesura
Vulgarity
Limerick
25. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Heroic couplet
Jargon (diction)
Oxymoron
Parody
26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Dialect
Lyric
Profanity (diction)
Clause
27. 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
Phrase
Anapestic Meter
Refrain
28. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Anecdote
Couplet
Phonology
29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Narration
Blank verse
Autobiography
Stanza
30. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Euphemism
Short story
Preposition
31. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Fantasy
Personification
Morphology
Slang (diction)
32. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Narration
Historical fiction
Stanza
Blank verse
33. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Caesura
Mood
Verse
Symbol
34. 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.
Haiku
Mystery
Jargon (diction)
Dialect
35. 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
Conflict
Setting
Flashback
Legend
36. 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
Cliche
Camera view
Mystery
Enjambment
37. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Phrase
Camera view
Mood
38. ' U
Conflict
Science fiction
Trochaic (foot)
Dialect
39. 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
Caesura
Sonnet
Novel
4 sentence types
40. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Meter
Ballad
Setting
Fantasy
41. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Conflict
Symbol
Parody
situation irony
42. 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
Essay
Free verse
Haiku
Internal rhyme
43. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Genre
Enjambment
Meter
Clause
44. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Euphemism
Paradox
dramatic irony
45. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Rhythm
Slang (diction)
Couplet
46. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Foot
Phrase
Sonnet
47. 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
Foreshadowing
Antagonist
Pronoun
48. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Noun
Novella
Refrain
Heroic couplet
49. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Assonance
Genre
Frame tale
Limited omniscient
50. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Enjambment
Limited omniscient
Repetition
Autobiography