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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 sounds of language and their physical properties.
Elegy
Dialect
Phonetics
Couplet
2. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Refrain
4 sentence types
Blank verse
3. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Couplet
Simile
Dialect
Limerick
4. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Rhetoric
Euphemism
Colloquialisms (diction)
Preposition
5. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Plot
Personification
Satire
Noun
6. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
etymology
Pronoun
Participle
Lyric
7. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Horror
Stanza
Antagonist
8. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Dialect
Dialect
Characterization
Hubris
9. 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.
Myth
Essay
Narrative Point of View
Dactylic
10. The telling of a story.
Pronoun
Narration
Analogy
Refrain
11. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Holistic Scoring
Science fiction
Ambiguity
Syntax
12. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Pronoun
Semantics
Frame tale
13. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Antagonist
Jargon (diction)
Conjunction
Third Person
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
Foot
Existentialism
End rhyme
Third Person
15. 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
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Analogy
Apostrophe
Ballad
16. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Morphology
Allusion
Sonnet
17. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Conflict
Flashback
Western
situation irony
18. 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.
etymology
Tragedy
Mystery
Hyperbole
19. 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
Antagonist
Aphorism
Morphology
Frame tale
20. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Euphemism
Ballad
Symbol
Preposition
21. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Internal rhyme
Genre
Antagonist
Omniscient
22. 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
Foreshadowing
Enjambment
Myth
Antagonist
23. The study of the orgin of words
Parody
etymology
Anapestic Meter
Phrase
24. 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.
Foreshadowing
Adjective
Noun
Phonetics
25. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Apostrophe
Assonance
Symbol
Allegory
26. 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 .
Short story
Vulgarity
Caesura
Narration
27. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Meter
Existentialism
Denotation
Dialect (diction)
28. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Moral
Denotation
Biography
Repetition
29. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Flashback
Dialect
Jargon (diction)
30. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Oxymoron
Genre
Historical fiction
Ballad
31. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Syntax
Autobiography
Denouement
Iambic (foot)
32. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Science fiction
Moral
dramatic irony
Elegy
33. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Third Person
Style
First Person
Repetition
34. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Mystery
Western
Archaic (diction)
Elegy
35. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Paradox
Transcendentalism
Sonnet
36. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Style
Science fiction
Personification
Character
37. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Metaphor
Existentialism
Verse
First Person
38. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Narrative Point of View
Allegory
Parody
Style
39. 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.
Irony
Elegy
Voice
Historical fiction
40. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Narration
Refrain
Narrative Point of View
Couplet
41. 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
Denotation
Third Person
Analogy
42. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
situation irony
Folktale
Romance
43. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Apostrophe
Third Person
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
44. 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
Phonology
Satire
Euphemism
Fairy Tale
45. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Antagonist
Allusion
Document (letter - diary - journal)
46. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Epic
situation irony
Malapropism
Romance
47. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Characterization
Semantics
Apostrophe
48. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Refrain
Dialect (diction)
Malapropism
49. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Foot
Diction
Stanza
Conjunction
50. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Internal rhyme
Western
Frame tale
Narrative Point of View