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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. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Dactylic
Phonetics
Repetition
2. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Phrase
Heroic couplet
Simile
Transcendentalism
3. A person or being in a narrative
Preposition
Character
Adverb
Limerick
4. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Mood
Irony
Verb
Horror
5. 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.
Jargon (diction)
Verse
Fable
Limited omniscient
6. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Conflict
Blank verse
Limerick
Document (letter - diary - journal)
7. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Phrase
Metaphor
Characterization
Parody
8. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Myth
Ambiguity
Parody
Epic
9. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Style
Couplet
Caesura
10. The study of the structure of words.
Romance
Morphology
Epic
Verb
11. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Allegory
Symbol
Narrative Point of View
Assonance
12. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Double speak
Personification
Plot
Essay
13. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Folktale
Setting
Lyric
Profanity (diction)
14. 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
Legend
Novella
Holistic Scoring
Parody
15. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Transcendentalism
Imagery
Historical fiction
Denotation
16. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Caesura
Internal rhyme
Anecdote
Parody
17. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Verse
Fairy Tale
Heroic couplet
18. 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.
Assonance
Myth
Stanza
Limited omniscient
19. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Anapestic Meter
Colloquialisms (diction)
Dactylic
20. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Onomatopoeia
Anapestic Meter
Free verse
Malapropism
21. ' U U
Diction
Simile
Profanity (diction)
Dactylic
22. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Transcendentalism
Haiku
etymology
23. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Epic
Symbol
Aphorism
Free verse
24. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Science fiction
Limerick
Autobiography
Foot
25. The perspective from which a story is told.
Simile
Euphemism
Point of View
End rhyme
26. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Preposition
Style
Lyric
Anapestic
27. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Elegy
situation irony
Jargon (diction)
28. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Allusion
Autobiography
Point of View
29. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
situation irony
Double speak
Allusion
Sonnet
30. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Novel
Point of View
dramatic irony
Connosance
31. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
4 sentence types
Voice
Clause
Imagery
32. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Dialect
Couplet
Epic
Denouement
33. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Setting
Pragmatics
Clause
Antagonist
34. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Science fiction
Hyperbole
Ambiguity
Oxymoron
35. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.
Holistic Scoring
Preposition
Internal rhyme
Clause
36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Legend
Pragmatics
Genre
End rhyme
37. 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
Euphemism
Conjunction
Enjambment
Stanza
38. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Dialect
Hyperbole
Allegory
Caesura
39. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Denotation
Adjective
Imagery
40. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Cliche
Denouement
Ambiguity
Phrase
41. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Moral
etymology
Tone
Verse
42. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Euphemism
Limited omniscient
Lyric
Allegory
43. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Oxymoron
Heroic couplet
End rhyme
Conflict
44. 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
Allusion
Mood
Apostrophe
Novel
45. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Conflict
Phonetics
Denouement
Science fiction
46. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
End rhyme
Simile
Assonance
47. 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.
Oxymoron
Horror
Characterization
Pronoun
48. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Pragmatics
Onomatopoeia
Satire
Adverb
49. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Oxymoron
Novel
Mood
Symbol
50. 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
Analogy
Couplet
Horror