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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






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






3. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






4. 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






5. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






6. A wise saying - usually short and written.






7. The main section of a long poem.






8. ' U U






9. A person or being in a narrative






10. 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






11. 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.






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






13. The writer says one thing and means another






14. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






16. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






17. The main character or hero of a written work.






18. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






20. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






22. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






23. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






24. 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






25. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






26. The story is told by someone outside the story.






27. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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29. 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






30. The telling of a story.






31. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






32. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.






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






34. 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.






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






36. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






37. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. 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






42. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






43. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






44. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






46. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






47. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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






49. An extended fictional prose narrative.






50. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.