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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. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Simile
Symbol
Style
Participle
2. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Double speak
Denouement
Repetition
Camera view
3. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Third Person
Voice
Semantics
Internal rhyme
4. 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.
Adjective
Camera view
Fable
Limerick
5. The telling of a story.
Novel
Rhetoric
Narration
Conflict
6. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Setting
Omniscient
Limited omniscient
Ballad
7. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Narrative Point of View
Omniscient
Holistic Scoring
Slang (diction)
8. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Trochaic (foot)
Novella
Dialect
9. 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.
Hyperbole
Transcendentalism
Metaphor
Flashback
10. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Ballad
Fantasy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Plot
11. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Haiku
Dialect
Plot
Setting
12. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Aphorism
Archaic (diction)
Antagonist
Dialect
13. The main section of a long poem.
Imagery
Canto
Limerick
Haiku
14. 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.
Free verse
Pronoun
Article
Short story
15. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Biography
verbal irony
Denotation
16. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Folktale
Historical fiction
Euphemism
Heroic couplet
17. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Dialect
First Person
Connotation
dramatic irony
18. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Phonetics
Elegy
Oxymoron
Frame tale
19. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Assonance
Adjective
Cliche
4 sentence types
20. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Jargon (diction)
Symbol
Blank verse
21. 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.
Character
Verb
Conflict
Preposition
22. 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
Narrative Point of View
Analogy
23. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Holistic Scoring
Verb
Internal rhyme
Tragedy
24. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Adverb
Slang (diction)
Cliche
Narrative Point of View
25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Heroic couplet
Short story
End rhyme
Anapestic Meter
26. ' U
Semantics
Trochaic (foot)
Phonetics
Point of View
27. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Novella
Tragedy
Frame tale
28. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Symbol
Double speak
Myth
Foot
29. A person or being in a narrative
Folktale
Participle
Character
Anapestic
30. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Legend
Elegy
Pragmatics
Double speak
31. 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.
Conflict
Irony
Slang (diction)
Morphology
32. 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
Short story
Style
Myth
Romance
33. The main character or hero of a written work.
Fantasy
Conflict
Protagonist
Mood
34. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Profanity (diction)
Horror
Haiku
35. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Pronoun
Jargon (diction)
Flashback
Syntax
36. 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
Camera view
Foot
Cliche
Connosance
37. 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.'
Double speak
Oxymoron
Elegy
Point of View
38. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Characterization
situation irony
Noun
Oxymoron
39. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Adjective
Character
Diction
40. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Fairy Tale
Free verse
Jargon (diction)
Blank verse
41. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Euphemism
Vulgarity
etymology
42. 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.
Jargon
Existentialism
Personification
Syntax
43. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Colloquialisms (diction)
Couplet
Point of View
44. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Essay
Folktale
Ambiguity
Meter
45. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Diction
Simile
Vulgarity
End rhyme
46. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Tone
Setting
Ambiguity
Dialect (diction)
47. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Imagery
Slang (diction)
Aphorism
Holistic Scoring
48. 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.
Myth
Colloquialisms (diction)
Verb
Pronoun
49. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Free verse
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Hubris
Article
50. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Horror
Anapestic
Participle
Personification