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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. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Style
Apostrophe
Transcendentalism
Cliche
2. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Dialect
Denouement
Malapropism
Tone
3. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Epic
4 sentence types
Rhythm
Jargon (diction)
4. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Horror
Adjective
Biography
Meter
5. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Denotation
Narrative Point of View
Satire
6. The writer says one thing and means another
Apostrophe
Protagonist
verbal irony
Lyric
7. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Mood
Tragedy
Fairy Tale
8. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Verb
Dialect
Enjambment
9. U '
Jargon
Iambic (foot)
4 sentence types
Oxymoron
10. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Anapestic Meter
Adjective
Lyric
etymology
11. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Narrative Point of View
Genre
Paradox
Third Person
12. 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.
Historical fiction
Pronoun
Adjective
Personification
13. The study of the structure of sentences.
Double speak
Syntax
etymology
Cliche
14. 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
Historical fiction
Myth
Sonnet
Profanity (diction)
15. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Dialect (diction)
Genre
Denouement
Allegory
16. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Limited omniscient
Analogy
Haiku
situation irony
17. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Lyric
Euphemism
Refrain
Verse
18. 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
Fairy Tale
Hyperbole
End rhyme
Holistic Scoring
19. 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.
Phonetics
Symbol
Verb
Preposition
20. 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
Limited omniscient
Stanza
Epic
Diction
21. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Novella
Oxymoron
Anapestic Meter
Rhythm
22. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Style
Transcendentalism
Ballad
Symbol
23. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Free verse
Pragmatics
Hyperbole
Denotation
24. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Hubris
Denouement
Conflict
Ambiguity
25. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Symbol
Phrase
Archaic (diction)
Stanza
26. The main character or hero of a written work.
Jargon
Fantasy
Plot
Protagonist
27. 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
Anapestic
Third Person
Frame tale
Tone
28. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Epic
Science fiction
Anapestic
29. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Omniscient
Preposition
Short story
Rhythm
30. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Antagonist
Allusion
Pronoun
Repetition
31. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Phonology
Refrain
Oxymoron
Omniscient
32. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Heroic couplet
Stanza
Myth
Irony
33. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Connosance
Archaic (diction)
Allegory
34. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Free verse
Onomatopoeia
Colloquialisms (diction)
Imagery
35. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Foreshadowing
Novella
Analogy
Elegy
36. 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.
Historical fiction
Myth
Clause
Hyperbole
37. 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.
Haiku
Noun
Jargon
Analogy
38. 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
Mystery
Parody
First Person
Legend
39. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Dactylic
Archaic (diction)
Camera view
Jargon (diction)
40. 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
Rhetoric
Foot
Adverb
Plot
41. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Couplet
Limited omniscient
Historical fiction
Simile
42. 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
Romance
Western
Moral
Adjective
43. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Metaphor
First Person
Narrative Point of View
Rhythm
44. The perspective from which a story is told.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Point of View
Protagonist
Rhythm
45. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Irony
Caesura
Limited omniscient
46. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Anapestic
Foot
Dialect
Ambiguity
47. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Elegy
Preposition
Clause
Dialect (diction)
48. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Haiku
Aphorism
Meter
Dialect
49. 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
Blank verse
Caesura
Conjunction
Apostrophe
50. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Adverb
Anapestic Meter
Foot
Foreshadowing