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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 method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Dialect (diction)
Rhetoric
Holistic Scoring
Foreshadowing
2. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Malapropism
First Person
Morphology
Fable
3. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Moral
Simile
Rhetoric
4. 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.
Metaphor
Assonance
Pronoun
Fantasy
5. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Myth
Connosance
Verb
Dialect
6. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Third Person
Romance
Noun
Jargon (diction)
7. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Denotation
Couplet
Oxymoron
Dialect
8. 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 .
Characterization
Onomatopoeia
Caesura
Personification
9. 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
Connosance
Pragmatics
Anecdote
10. 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
Anapestic
Enjambment
Canto
Dialect
11. The telling of a story.
Pronoun
Setting
Trochaic (foot)
Narration
12. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Irony
Phonetics
Euphemism
Noun
13. 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.
Conjunction
Myth
Dactylic
Jargon
14. 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
Omniscient
Foot
Denotation
Hubris
15. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Mystery
Oxymoron
Free verse
Noun
16. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Camera view
Dialect
Omniscient
Style
17. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Diction
Fantasy
Allegory
Archaic (diction)
18. The study of the structure of sentences.
Assonance
Mystery
Syntax
Science fiction
19. 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
Protagonist
Essay
Malapropism
Heroic couplet
20. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Limited omniscient
Protagonist
Flashback
Enjambment
21. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Meter
Aphorism
Hubris
Internal rhyme
22. 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.
dramatic irony
Irony
Cliche
Connotation
23. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Novel
Western
Cliche
Historical fiction
24. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Archaic (diction)
Novel
Essay
Connosance
25. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
dramatic irony
Verb
Plot
Double speak
26. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Short story
Rhythm
Omniscient
Anapestic Meter
27. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Narration
Novella
Camera view
Moral
28. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Profanity (diction)
Blank verse
Adjective
Pragmatics
29. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Vulgarity
Character
Genre
Third Person
30. 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.
Plot
Clause
Horror
Article
31. The study of the orgin of words
Malapropism
Epic
etymology
Archaic (diction)
32. 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.
Preposition
Point of View
Anapestic Meter
Article
33. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Onomatopoeia
Apostrophe
Short story
Morphology
34. 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.
Foreshadowing
Plot
Jargon
Anapestic Meter
35. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Vulgarity
Colloquialisms (diction)
Setting
Blank verse
36. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Repetition
Oxymoron
Noun
Symbol
37. 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
Personification
Pragmatics
Meter
38. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Essay
Repetition
Vulgarity
Foot
39. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Diction
Assonance
Analogy
Free verse
40. 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.
Jargon
Myth
Allusion
Fable
41. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
Phrase
Ballad
42. 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.
Adverb
Couplet
Allegory
Third Person
43. The study of the structure of words.
Conflict
Lyric
Morphology
Metaphor
44. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Foot
Phonology
Characterization
Aphorism
45. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Diction
dramatic irony
Morphology
46. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Malapropism
Style
Phonology
Parody
47. U '
Free verse
Symbol
Iambic (foot)
Novel
48. 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
Conjunction
Dactylic
Vulgarity
Document (letter - diary - journal)
49. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Setting
Trochaic (foot)
Biography
Verse
50. 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
Pragmatics
Autobiography
Fairy Tale
Narrative Point of View