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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 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
Myth
Sonnet
Science fiction
Point of View
2. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Aphorism
Tragedy
Profanity (diction)
Blank verse
3. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Connosance
Limerick
Allegory
4. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Rhythm
Frame tale
Anapestic
5. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Personification
Euphemism
Voice
Malapropism
6. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Archaic (diction)
Analogy
Tragedy
Internal rhyme
7. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Genre
Style
Apostrophe
Satire
8. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Protagonist
First Person
Elegy
verbal irony
9. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Limerick
Heroic couplet
Euphemism
Plot
10. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Noun
dramatic irony
Dialect
Character
11. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Jargon
Dialect
Omniscient
12. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Short story
Foreshadowing
Antagonist
Ballad
13. 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
Syntax
Allegory
Malapropism
Short story
14. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Essay
Clause
Parody
Cliche
15. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Participle
Malapropism
Lyric
Setting
16. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Third Person
Allegory
Transcendentalism
Lyric
17. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Antagonist
Euphemism
Colloquialisms (diction)
Lyric
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
Anecdote
Fairy Tale
Symbol
Plot
19. The telling of a story.
Narration
Science fiction
Ambiguity
Protagonist
20. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Repetition
Verse
Syntax
Oxymoron
21. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Plot
Limited omniscient
Voice
Omniscient
22. 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.
Profanity (diction)
Jargon
Adverb
Frame tale
23. 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.
Allegory
Pronoun
Irony
Sonnet
24. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
verbal irony
Pronoun
Mood
Flashback
25. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Trochaic (foot)
Apostrophe
Dialect
26. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Antagonist
Antagonist
Phrase
Simile
27. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Verb
verbal irony
Novella
Archaic (diction)
28. 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.
Adjective
Fable
Noun
Hubris
29. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Folktale
Limerick
Meter
30. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Rhetoric
Conflict
Personification
Preposition
31. U '
Irony
Iambic (foot)
Enjambment
Epic
32. 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.
Refrain
Pronoun
Elegy
Holistic Scoring
33. 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.
Anapestic
Enjambment
Euphemism
Camera view
34. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Western
Satire
Setting
35. A person or being in a narrative
Fable
Setting
Character
Jargon (diction)
36. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Verse
Existentialism
Autobiography
Tone
37. 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.
Free verse
Metaphor
Myth
Rhetoric
38. 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
Setting
Foot
Narration
Caesura
39. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Heroic couplet
Historical fiction
Ballad
40. 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 -
Connotation
Transcendentalism
Character
Sonnet
41. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Character
Trochaic (foot)
Foreshadowing
42. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Morphology
Irony
Narration
43. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Vulgarity
Slang (diction)
Refrain
Point of View
44. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Morphology
Archaic (diction)
Slang (diction)
Setting
45. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Horror
Conflict
Caesura
46. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Conflict
Legend
Anecdote
First Person
47. U U '
Anapestic
Conjunction
Enjambment
Internal rhyme
48. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Hyperbole
Third Person
Denouement
Flashback
49. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Elegy
Rhetoric
Fable
50. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Camera view
End rhyme
Genre
Foreshadowing