Test your basic knowledge |

Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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






2. The study of the structure of sentences.






3. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






4. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






5. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






6. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






7. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






8. 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






9. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






10. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






11. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






12. The study of the meaning in language.






13. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






14. A contradictory statement that makes sense






15. The time and place in which a story occurs.






16. 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.






17. 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






18. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






19. A person's account of his or hew own life.






20. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






21. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






22. U '






23. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






24. 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






25. 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.






26. ' U






27. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






28. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






29. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






31. 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.






32. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






33. A story about a person's life written by another person.






34. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






35. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






36. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






37. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






38. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






39. 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.'






40. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






41. 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






42. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






43. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






44. A wise saying - usually short and written.






45. 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.






46. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






47. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






48. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






49. 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.






50. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.