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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 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.
Phrase
First Person
Symbol
Preposition
2. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.
Refrain
Lyric
Phonetics
Hyperbole
3. The study of the meaning in language.
Haiku
Participle
Semantics
Internal rhyme
4. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Noun
Repetition
First Person
Analogy
5. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Fairy Tale
Moral
Haiku
6. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Malapropism
Autobiography
Connosance
Clause
7. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Character
Antagonist
Repetition
Tone
8. A person or being in a narrative
Aphorism
Character
Characterization
Allusion
9. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Couplet
Haiku
Transcendentalism
Allusion
10. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Dactylic
Caesura
Euphemism
11. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Antagonist
Antagonist
Ambiguity
Allegory
12. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Preposition
Short story
Cliche
13. 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
Lyric
dramatic irony
Limited omniscient
14. U U '
Character
Cliche
Anapestic
Frame tale
15. The perspective from which a story is told.
Hyperbole
Biography
Point of View
Parody
16. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Archaic (diction)
Narrative Point of View
Anecdote
17. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Heroic couplet
Cliche
Camera view
Double speak
18. 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
Conjunction
situation irony
Couplet
Foot
19. 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
Cliche
Assonance
Fairy Tale
Fantasy
20. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Personification
Syntax
Jargon
21. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Jargon
Simile
Pragmatics
Style
22. U '
Allusion
Existentialism
Iambic (foot)
Protagonist
23. 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.
Imagery
Science fiction
Internal rhyme
Mystery
24. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
situation irony
Analogy
Semantics
Mood
25. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Blank verse
Tone
Metaphor
26. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Participle
Adverb
Lyric
27. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Characterization
Paradox
Blank verse
28. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Repetition
Archaic (diction)
Free verse
Rhetoric
29. 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.
Cliche
Holistic Scoring
Free verse
Myth
30. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Euphemism
Refrain
Tone
Dialect (diction)
31. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Hyperbole
Pragmatics
First Person
32. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonology
Stanza
Phonetics
Simile
33. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Personification
Iambic (foot)
Pronoun
34. 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
Essay
Adverb
Conjunction
Fable
35. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Point of View
Malapropism
Simile
Conflict
36. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Adverb
Fable
Ballad
Haiku
37. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Colloquialisms (diction)
Adjective
situation irony
Symbol
38. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Third Person
Western
Phonology
Denotation
39. 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.
4 sentence types
Pronoun
Rhetoric
Paradox
40. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Mystery
Heroic couplet
Participle
41. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Antagonist
Onomatopoeia
Foot
Cliche
42. 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
End rhyme
Frame tale
Plot
Document (letter - diary - journal)
43. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Tragedy
Noun
Denouement
Allegory
44. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Foot
Short story
Novella
Epic
45. 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.
Apostrophe
Conjunction
Fable
Simile
46. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Horror
Rhythm
Repetition
Antagonist
47. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Dialect
Euphemism
Aphorism
Science fiction
48. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Fantasy
Camera view
Denouement
Connosance
49. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Dialect
Voice
Anecdote
Anapestic
50. 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
Connosance
Euphemism
Epic
Couplet