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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 metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Assonance
Verse
Verb
Narrative Point of View
2. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Noun
Heroic couplet
Pragmatics
Slang (diction)
3. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Profanity (diction)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Hyperbole
4. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Slang (diction)
Metaphor
Euphemism
Frame tale
5. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Pronoun
Autobiography
Fable
Ballad
6. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Aphorism
Refrain
Dactylic
Oxymoron
7. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Malapropism
Simile
Clause
Cliche
8. 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.
Heroic couplet
Blank verse
Conjunction
Rhythm
9. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Alliteration
Conflict
Assonance
Characterization
10. The telling of a story.
Narration
Mystery
Camera view
Epic
11. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Phrase
Cliche
Fairy Tale
Mystery
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.
Plot
Rhythm
Iambic (foot)
Allegory
13. 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
Novella
Legend
Character
Verse
14. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Apostrophe
Dactylic
Historical fiction
15. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Couplet
Essay
Noun
Limited omniscient
16. 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.
First Person
Setting
Parody
Adverb
17. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Anecdote
Lyric
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Cliche
18. The main section of a long poem.
Adjective
Fairy Tale
Canto
First Person
19. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Protagonist
Mystery
Free verse
20. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Noun
Anecdote
Third Person
Phonetics
21. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Genre
Imagery
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Double speak
22. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Anapestic Meter
dramatic irony
Adjective
Morphology
23. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Apostrophe
Denouement
Transcendentalism
dramatic irony
24. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Hubris
Irony
Narrative Point of View
verbal irony
25. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Hyperbole
Fairy Tale
Caesura
Historical fiction
26. The study of the orgin of words
Hyperbole
Irony
etymology
Historical fiction
27. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Participle
Voice
Connosance
Pragmatics
28. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Archaic (diction)
Fairy Tale
Diction
29. 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
Refrain
dramatic irony
Canto
Sonnet
30. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Phonology
Limited omniscient
Iambic (foot)
31. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Verse
etymology
Denotation
Lyric
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Hyperbole
Alliteration
Morphology
4 sentence types
33. The study of the structure of sentences.
Short story
Syntax
Point of View
Epic
34. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
End rhyme
Phonetics
Pronoun
Archaic (diction)
35. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Essay
Participle
Transcendentalism
Western
36. 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
Dialect (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Foot
Pronoun
37. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Antagonist
Alliteration
Profanity (diction)
Omniscient
38. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Refrain
Third Person
Profanity (diction)
Vulgarity
39. ' U U
Dactylic
Myth
Flashback
Cliche
40. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Character
Personification
Assonance
Phonetics
41. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Cliche
First Person
Free verse
Pronoun
42. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Simile
Syntax
Elegy
End rhyme
43. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Alliteration
Dialect (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Free verse
44. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Novella
Heroic couplet
Vulgarity
Diction
45. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Semantics
Western
Antagonist
Hubris
46. 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.
Foreshadowing
Novella
Third Person
Existentialism
47. 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.
Style
Meter
Science fiction
Setting
48. 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.
Tragedy
Horror
Mood
Participle
49. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Blank verse
Foreshadowing
Free verse
Holistic Scoring
50. The study of the meaning in language.
Diction
Semantics
Horror
Plot