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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 contradictory statement that makes sense
Satire
Third Person
Paradox
Ambiguity
2. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Pronoun
Assonance
Allusion
3. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Blank verse
Adjective
Novel
Morphology
4. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Transcendentalism
Assonance
Anapestic
Conjunction
5. 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 .
Narrative Point of View
Analogy
Caesura
dramatic irony
6. 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
Verb
Antagonist
Short story
Profanity (diction)
7. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Stanza
Fairy Tale
Imagery
Legend
8. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Paradox
Onomatopoeia
Euphemism
Frame tale
9. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Anapestic
Genre
Morphology
Holistic Scoring
10. The study of the structure of words.
Repetition
Frame tale
Character
Morphology
11. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Epic
situation irony
Blank verse
Double speak
12. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Refrain
Flashback
Euphemism
13. 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.
Aphorism
Preposition
Mood
Denotation
14. 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
Diction
Sonnet
Connosance
15. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Verb
Alliteration
Caesura
Style
16. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
First Person
Ambiguity
Alliteration
Enjambment
17. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Parody
Omniscient
Document (letter - diary - journal)
18. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Limerick
Blank verse
Heroic couplet
Autobiography
19. 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.
Haiku
Frame tale
Dactylic
Fable
20. The main section of a long poem.
Tragedy
Euphemism
Setting
Canto
21. U U '
Anapestic
Biography
Aphorism
Style
22. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Dialect
Myth
Antagonist
Dactylic
23. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
First Person
Dialect
Alliteration
Fable
24. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Phonetics
Onomatopoeia
Cliche
Sonnet
25. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Anapestic
Plot
Omniscient
26. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Paradox
Autobiography
Personification
Horror
27. 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
Fable
Diction
Slang (diction)
Folktale
28. The main character or hero of a written work.
Tone
Protagonist
Point of View
Narrative Point of View
29. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
verbal irony
dramatic irony
Free verse
Fantasy
30. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Dialect
Jargon (diction)
Connotation
Assonance
31. 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.
Flashback
Oxymoron
Stanza
Short story
32. Persuasive writing.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Horror
Rhetoric
Foreshadowing
33. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Allusion
Narrative Point of View
verbal irony
34. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Canto
Profanity (diction)
Paradox
Vulgarity
35. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Jargon (diction)
Semantics
Mood
36. 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
Jargon (diction)
Phonetics
Cliche
Frame tale
37. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Horror
verbal irony
Limited omniscient
38. 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
Morphology
Jargon
Canto
Foot
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
Antagonist
Symbol
Sonnet
Fantasy
40. 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
Syntax
Limerick
Heroic couplet
Western
41. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Rhetoric
Fable
Setting
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
Stanza
dramatic irony
Denouement
Essay
43. 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
Epic
Anecdote
Colloquialisms (diction)
44. 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.
Legend
Heroic couplet
Conjunction
Syntax
45. 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.'
dramatic irony
Phrase
Elegy
Double speak
46. The study of the orgin of words
Phonetics
etymology
Transcendentalism
Conjunction
47. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Phrase
Cliche
Alliteration
48. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Legend
Article
Essay
Noun
49. The perspective from which a story is told.
Legend
Verse
Point of View
Science fiction
50. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Moral
Internal rhyme
Euphemism