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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. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Epic
Blank verse
2. 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.
dramatic irony
Anecdote
Stanza
Diction
3. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Parody
Allusion
Camera view
4. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
4 sentence types
Setting
Dialect
Colloquialisms (diction)
5. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Irony
Meter
Allusion
Dialect
6. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Profanity (diction)
Myth
Diction
Antagonist
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.
Double speak
Participle
Phonology
Mystery
8. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Symbol
Flashback
Parody
Third Person
9. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Aphorism
Novel
Metaphor
Personification
10. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Fantasy
Foot
Biography
Science fiction
11. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Refrain
Heroic couplet
Imagery
Onomatopoeia
12. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Mood
Meter
Allegory
13. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Repetition
Anecdote
Existentialism
Couplet
14. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Novel
Slang (diction)
Adverb
dramatic irony
15. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Metaphor
Meter
Phrase
Connotation
16. 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
Verse
Repetition
Style
Epic
17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Fable
Euphemism
Cliche
18. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Lyric
Haiku
Oxymoron
Profanity (diction)
19. 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.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Slang (diction)
Plot
Existentialism
20. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Hubris
Noun
Essay
Elegy
21. 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
Limerick
Holistic Scoring
verbal irony
Frame tale
22. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Holistic Scoring
Historical fiction
Tone
Foot
23. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Dialect (diction)
Antagonist
Limited omniscient
Dactylic
24. 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.
Third Person
Haiku
Transcendentalism
Pragmatics
25. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Ambiguity
Existentialism
situation irony
Onomatopoeia
26. 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
Narrative Point of View
Tragedy
Phonology
27. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Foot
Mystery
Novella
Hubris
28. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Free verse
Phrase
Setting
29. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Profanity (diction)
Euphemism
Stanza
Double speak
30. A person or being in a narrative
Alliteration
Character
Imagery
Euphemism
31. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Euphemism
Dialect
Malapropism
Omniscient
32. 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.
Limerick
Conjunction
Science fiction
Anapestic Meter
33. 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
Foreshadowing
Legend
Anecdote
Apostrophe
34. 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
Ambiguity
Elegy
Enjambment
Dactylic
35. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Anapestic Meter
Lyric
Phonology
Onomatopoeia
36. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Omniscient
Pronoun
Iambic (foot)
37. 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
Fairy Tale
Biography
Camera view
Document (letter - diary - journal)
38. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
4 sentence types
Tragedy
Plot
Verse
39. The main section of a long poem.
Assonance
Jargon
Characterization
Canto
40. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Moral
Analogy
Ballad
Assonance
41. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Slang (diction)
Plot
Phrase
Phonology
42. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Denouement
Personification
Adverb
Mood
43. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Profanity (diction)
Satire
Iambic (foot)
Dactylic
44. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
Adjective
Pronoun
Euphemism
Short story
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Conflict
Romance
Moral
Anapestic
46. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Connotation
Noun
situation irony
Phrase
47. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Anecdote
Analogy
Autobiography
Preposition
48. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Semantics
First Person
4 sentence types
49. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Personification
Aphorism
Symbol
Trochaic (foot)
50. 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.
Repetition
Characterization
Irony
Semantics