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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 story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Mystery
4 sentence types
Allegory
Diction
2. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Dialect (diction)
Autobiography
Metaphor
Point of View
3. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Short story
Genre
Alliteration
4. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Euphemism
Satire
Rhythm
Phrase
5. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Article
Pragmatics
Paradox
Vulgarity
6. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Frame tale
Alliteration
Stanza
Omniscient
7. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Pragmatics
Dialect (diction)
Clause
Canto
8. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Romance
Ballad
Paradox
Participle
9. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Limited omniscient
Character
Holistic Scoring
Western
10. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Archaic (diction)
Stanza
Point of View
Jargon
11. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Parody
Denouement
Elegy
12. 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
Epic
Oxymoron
Archaic (diction)
Conflict
13. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Point of View
Autobiography
Irony
14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Legend
Genre
Limited omniscient
15. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Jargon
Symbol
Historical fiction
Imagery
16. 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
Enjambment
Fairy Tale
Legend
Preposition
17. 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.
Oxymoron
Fable
Anapestic
Double speak
18. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Enjambment
Ballad
4 sentence types
Dialect
19. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Pronoun
Cliche
Satire
Free verse
20. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Trochaic (foot)
Anapestic Meter
Denouement
Couplet
21. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Science fiction
Clause
Character
22. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Short story
Setting
Denotation
Symbol
23. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch
Setting
Folktale
Tone
Colloquialisms (diction)
24. 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
Clause
Irony
Western
Apostrophe
25. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Legend
Denouement
Morphology
26. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Setting
Holistic Scoring
Euphemism
Dialect
27. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Romance
Tragedy
Adverb
Third Person
28. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Legend
Point of View
Personification
Simile
29. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Irony
Jargon
Dialect
Phonology
30. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Parody
Connotation
Couplet
Analogy
31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Refrain
Connotation
Lyric
Heroic couplet
32. 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
Genre
Romance
Adjective
33. A person or being in a narrative
Satire
Character
Double speak
Archaic (diction)
34. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Blank verse
Internal rhyme
Semantics
Verse
35. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Hubris
Meter
Holistic Scoring
End rhyme
36. 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
Essay
Limited omniscient
Frame tale
Antagonist
37. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect
Dialect (diction)
Adjective
Apostrophe
38. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Syntax
Denotation
Noun
Flashback
39. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
situation irony
Biography
Couplet
Historical fiction
40. The main character or hero of a written work.
Denotation
Setting
Protagonist
End rhyme
41. 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.
Hubris
Horror
Rhetoric
situation irony
42. 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
Phrase
End rhyme
Irony
Short story
43. 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.
Haiku
Fantasy
Myth
Colloquialisms (diction)
44. 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.
Stanza
Fairy Tale
Foreshadowing
Phrase
45. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Setting
Antagonist
Omniscient
Alliteration
46. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Irony
Voice
Blank verse
Aphorism
47. The study of the orgin of words
Trochaic (foot)
Analogy
etymology
Apostrophe
48. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Ambiguity
4 sentence types
Semantics
Imagery
49. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Connotation
Plot
Article
Mood
50. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Connosance
Noun
Metaphor
Archaic (diction)