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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. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Ballad
4 sentence types
Malapropism
Historical fiction
2. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Free verse
Camera view
Jargon (diction)
3. 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.
Caesura
Stanza
Lyric
Antagonist
4. 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
Malapropism
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Elegy
Horror
5. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Article
dramatic irony
Phonetics
Folktale
6. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Canto
Moral
Noun
7. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Allusion
Frame tale
First Person
Science fiction
8. 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.
Dialect (diction)
Blank verse
Jargon
Haiku
9. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Hyperbole
Tragedy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Euphemism
10. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Fantasy
End rhyme
Adjective
Limited omniscient
11. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Denouement
Plot
4 sentence types
12. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Irony
Paradox
Metaphor
13. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Adverb
Anapestic
etymology
Voice
14. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Blank verse
Free verse
Couplet
Connosance
15. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Meter
Pronoun
Diction
Haiku
16. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Canto
Novella
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
17. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Rhetoric
Moral
Colloquialisms (diction)
Free verse
18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Flashback
Paradox
Internal rhyme
Anecdote
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
Fantasy
Myth
Style
Lyric
20. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Paradox
Ambiguity
Noun
Ballad
21. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Oxymoron
Moral
Existentialism
22. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Phonology
Vulgarity
Ballad
Lyric
23. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Style
Protagonist
Autobiography
Participle
24. 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.
Trochaic (foot)
Horror
Holistic Scoring
Anecdote
25. 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.
Adjective
Biography
Irony
Historical fiction
26. The perspective from which a story is told.
situation irony
Dialect
Holistic Scoring
Point of View
27. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Symbol
Camera view
Narrative Point of View
Moral
28. 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
Euphemism
Semantics
Limerick
Pronoun
29. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo
Western
Heroic couplet
Aphorism
Canto
30. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Anecdote
Denouement
Adverb
31. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Folktale
Caesura
Article
Dialect
32. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'
Repetition
Couplet
Rhetoric
Elegy
33. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Noun
Simile
Clause
Dialect
34. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Autobiography
dramatic irony
Hyperbole
Plot
35. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Refrain
Foreshadowing
Profanity (diction)
36. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl
Rhetoric
Satire
Euphemism
Short story
37. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Lyric
Fable
Syntax
End rhyme
38. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Antagonist
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
Syntax
39. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Genre
Folktale
Jargon (diction)
Essay
40. The study of the structure of words.
verbal irony
Morphology
Denotation
Fantasy
41. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Foreshadowing
Symbol
Romance
Omniscient
42. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Limited omniscient
Internal rhyme
Paradox
43. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Legend
Iambic (foot)
Phonetics
Novella
44. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Onomatopoeia
Dactylic
Fairy Tale
Dialect (diction)
45. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Haiku
Limerick
Flashback
4 sentence types
46. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Fable
Biography
Conjunction
47. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Tragedy
Rhythm
Free verse
Cliche
48. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
4 sentence types
Essay
Fairy Tale
49. 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
Paradox
Satire
situation irony
Essay
50. 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 .
Caesura
Jargon (diction)
Romance
Pronoun