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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. The study of the orgin of words
End rhyme
Onomatopoeia
etymology
Dialect (diction)
2. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Parody
Flashback
Malapropism
Omniscient
3. 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
Epic
Satire
Novella
Foreshadowing
4. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Limerick
Mood
Novel
Onomatopoeia
5. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Repetition
Rhythm
Moral
Free verse
6. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Novella
Dactylic
Narrative Point of View
etymology
7. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Article
Style
Malapropism
8. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Moral
Biography
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Lyric
9. 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
Holistic Scoring
Preposition
Participle
10. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Apostrophe
4 sentence types
Verb
Document (letter - diary - journal)
11. 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
Archaic (diction)
Fairy Tale
Foreshadowing
Anapestic
12. 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
Anapestic Meter
Article
Euphemism
Denouement
13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
situation irony
Jargon (diction)
Internal rhyme
Symbol
14. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Rhythm
Genre
Epic
Pragmatics
15. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Symbol
Refrain
Anecdote
Myth
16. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Antagonist
Setting
Antagonist
situation irony
17. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Tone
Vulgarity
Pragmatics
18. 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
Frame tale
Meter
Connotation
Document (letter - diary - journal)
19. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Malapropism
Oxymoron
Pronoun
Euphemism
20. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Epic
Omniscient
Malapropism
Connotation
21. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Legend
Allusion
Anapestic Meter
Meter
22. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Euphemism
Romance
Phrase
Archaic (diction)
23. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Transcendentalism
Colloquialisms (diction)
Autobiography
Denotation
24. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Slang (diction)
Science fiction
Couplet
First Person
25. 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
Free verse
Symbol
Legend
Third Person
26. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Semantics
Romance
Verb
dramatic irony
27. The study of the structure of words.
Dialect
Morphology
Canto
Heroic couplet
28. Persuasive writing.
Biography
Rhetoric
Jargon (diction)
verbal irony
29. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Meter
Denotation
Voice
Western
30. A contradictory statement that makes sense
verbal irony
Anapestic
Paradox
Oxymoron
31. 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.
Biography
Existentialism
Parody
Alliteration
32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Trochaic (foot)
dramatic irony
Historical fiction
33. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Transcendentalism
Personification
Conflict
Assonance
34. 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
Genre
Holistic Scoring
Foot
Protagonist
35. 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.
Transcendentalism
Euphemism
Myth
Document (letter - diary - journal)
36. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Vulgarity
Participle
Foreshadowing
Tragedy
37. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Horror
Verb
Allusion
Tone
38. The study of the meaning in language.
Anapestic Meter
Syntax
Euphemism
Semantics
39. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Blank verse
Free verse
Double speak
Irony
40. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Tone
Article
Mystery
41. 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.
Romance
Transcendentalism
Pronoun
etymology
42. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Onomatopoeia
Ballad
Rhythm
Colloquialisms (diction)
43. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Tone
Analogy
Fable
Canto
44. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Trochaic (foot)
Pragmatics
Limerick
Vulgarity
45. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Canto
Third Person
Irony
Phonetics
46. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Third Person
Slang (diction)
Noun
Anapestic Meter
47. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E
Dactylic
Antagonist
Ballad
Fantasy
48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Autobiography
Free verse
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Allusion
49. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Archaic (diction)
Foot
Ballad
50. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Trochaic (foot)
Jargon
Antagonist