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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Foreshadowing
Mystery
Internal rhyme
Aphorism
2. Persuasive writing.
Hyperbole
Rhetoric
situation irony
Fable
3. U '
Internal rhyme
Metaphor
Denouement
Iambic (foot)
4. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Epic
Historical fiction
Verb
Metaphor
5. 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
Anapestic Meter
Short story
Frame tale
Characterization
6. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Fairy Tale
Novella
Cliche
Analogy
7. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Slang (diction)
Autobiography
Biography
Setting
8. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Rhythm
Dialect (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
9. 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.
Setting
Personification
Haiku
Symbol
10. 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.
Narration
Pronoun
Connotation
Allegory
11. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Allegory
Slang (diction)
Pragmatics
Canto
12. 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
Moral
Fantasy
Aphorism
Morphology
13. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Character
Profanity (diction)
Alliteration
Apostrophe
14. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Haiku
Vulgarity
Horror
Euphemism
15. 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
Article
Vulgarity
Essay
Metaphor
16. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
situation irony
Phonetics
Fable
17. 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.
Cliche
Existentialism
Narration
Romance
18. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Anapestic
Trochaic (foot)
Hubris
19. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Aphorism
Participle
Ambiguity
20. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Jargon (diction)
Existentialism
Mood
Pragmatics
21. 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.'
Romance
Elegy
Dialect
Voice
22. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Voice
Setting
Personification
Couplet
23. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Phrase
Limerick
Style
Diction
24. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Romance
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Aphorism
Dialect (diction)
25. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Elegy
Heroic couplet
situation irony
Tone
26. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Western
Aphorism
Stanza
Pronoun
27. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Adjective
Stanza
Personification
28. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Anecdote
Third Person
Legend
Iambic (foot)
29. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Parody
Transcendentalism
Participle
Limited omniscient
30. U U '
Preposition
Paradox
Anapestic
Hubris
31. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Third Person
Western
Tragedy
32. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Satire
Tragedy
Refrain
Paradox
33. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Enjambment
Protagonist
Paradox
Plot
34. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Oxymoron
Setting
Dialect
Article
35. The study of the structure of sentences.
Moral
Iambic (foot)
Syntax
etymology
36. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Frame tale
Haiku
Flashback
Anapestic
37. 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.
Conflict
Fable
Lyric
Adverb
38. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Noun
Archaic (diction)
Alliteration
End rhyme
39. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Article
Western
Hyperbole
Tone
40. The study of the meaning in language.
Plot
Heroic couplet
Semantics
Myth
41. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Third Person
Novella
Phonology
Double speak
42. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Western
Tone
Refrain
Frame tale
43. 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.
Foot
Novel
Conjunction
Voice
44. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Simile
Anapestic Meter
Syntax
Connosance
45. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
Narrative Point of View
Slang (diction)
Haiku
46. The writer says one thing and means another
Western
verbal irony
Autobiography
Phrase
47. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Enjambment
Connosance
Conjunction
Narrative Point of View
48. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Romance
Epic
Setting
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.
Holistic Scoring
Iambic (foot)
Canto
Hubris
50. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Phonetics
Noun
Assonance
etymology