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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. U U '
Simile
Diction
Anapestic
Caesura
2. The main character or hero of a written work.
Euphemism
Setting
First Person
Protagonist
3. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Plot
Connotation
Parody
Verse
4. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Anapestic Meter
Ambiguity
Tragedy
Hubris
5. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Connosance
Foreshadowing
Aphorism
Voice
6. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Phonetics
Simile
Voice
7. 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
Diction
Euphemism
Limerick
Dactylic
8. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Science fiction
Repetition
Novel
situation irony
9. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Novel
Autobiography
Oxymoron
Ballad
10. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Blank verse
etymology
Voice
Pragmatics
11. 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.
Free verse
Legend
Double speak
Irony
12. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Lyric
Historical fiction
Narration
Romance
13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Transcendentalism
Jargon
Free verse
Internal rhyme
14. 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
Fantasy
Malapropism
Euphemism
Irony
15. 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
Personification
Mood
etymology
Document (letter - diary - journal)
16. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Symbol
Caesura
Hyperbole
Participle
17. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Western
Heroic couplet
Assonance
Verse
18. 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
Folktale
Refrain
Cliche
Caesura
19. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Jargon
situation irony
Antagonist
Mood
20. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Article
Cliche
Archaic (diction)
Personification
21. The writer says one thing and means another
Couplet
Mood
verbal irony
Elegy
22. 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
Rhythm
Essay
Style
Romance
23. The study of the orgin of words
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Anecdote
Haiku
etymology
24. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
End rhyme
Canto
Onomatopoeia
25. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Pronoun
Dialect (diction)
Aphorism
Fairy Tale
26. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Free verse
Style
Double speak
Oxymoron
27. 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
Moral
Omniscient
Legend
Dialect
28. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Adverb
Simile
End rhyme
Repetition
29. 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.
Science fiction
Participle
Novel
Haiku
30. 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
Dialect (diction)
Semantics
Denotation
31. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Oxymoron
situation irony
Voice
32. 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
Connosance
Denotation
Epic
Sonnet
33. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Autobiography
Hubris
Metaphor
Mood
34. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Canto
Syntax
Biography
35. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Historical fiction
Denouement
Irony
Noun
36. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
End rhyme
Foreshadowing
Article
Clause
37. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Apostrophe
Syntax
Antagonist
Western
38. ' U
Phonology
Personification
Elegy
Trochaic (foot)
39. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Transcendentalism
Short story
Preposition
Imagery
40. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Aphorism
Allusion
Double speak
41. 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
Voice
Apostrophe
Aphorism
Irony
42. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Point of View
situation irony
Parody
Horror
43. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Epic
Assonance
Clause
Article
44. 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
Assonance
Character
Moral
45. 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.
Dialect (diction)
Voice
Assonance
Anapestic Meter
46. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Camera view
Antagonist
Assonance
Imagery
47. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Parody
Heroic couplet
Holistic Scoring
verbal irony
48. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Denotation
Characterization
Trochaic (foot)
Colloquialisms (diction)
49. Persuasive writing.
Blank verse
Narration
Rhetoric
Horror
50. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Folktale
Rhythm
Narration
Internal rhyme