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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 short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Setting
Denotation
Fairy Tale
2. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Fairy Tale
Euphemism
Tragedy
3. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Transcendentalism
Dialect (diction)
Ambiguity
4. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Fairy Tale
Dialect
Internal rhyme
5. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Preposition
Caesura
Characterization
Clause
6. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Dactylic
Plot
Fantasy
Short story
7. The main character or hero of a written work.
Third Person
Point of View
Protagonist
Anecdote
8. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Parody
Couplet
Sonnet
Phonetics
9. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
verbal irony
Blank verse
Conflict
10. 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
Enjambment
Moral
Refrain
Third Person
11. The study of the structure of words.
Sonnet
Morphology
Heroic couplet
Romance
12. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Fantasy
Simile
Character
Repetition
13. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Semantics
Mystery
verbal irony
Biography
14. U '
Clause
Canto
Iambic (foot)
Dialect (diction)
15. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Tragedy
Vulgarity
Imagery
16. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Trochaic (foot)
Archaic (diction)
Biography
Short story
17. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Canto
Allusion
18. 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
Third Person
Antagonist
Hyperbole
19. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Stanza
Characterization
Antagonist
Ballad
20. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Hubris
Paradox
Protagonist
Hyperbole
21. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Profanity (diction)
verbal irony
Flashback
22. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Ballad
Novella
Dialect
Allegory
23. 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.'
Iambic (foot)
Elegy
Phrase
End rhyme
24. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
verbal irony
Heroic couplet
Style
Dialect (diction)
25. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Allegory
Pragmatics
Tragedy
Ballad
26. U U '
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Anapestic
Iambic (foot)
Verb
27. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Caesura
Lyric
First Person
Simile
28. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
First Person
Short story
Point of View
29. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Free verse
Personification
Science fiction
Denotation
30. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Foreshadowing
Preposition
Tone
Vulgarity
31. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Camera view
Setting
Hyperbole
32. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.
Simile
Hyperbole
Setting
Historical fiction
33. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Jargon (diction)
Noun
Profanity (diction)
Malapropism
34. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Euphemism
Analogy
Protagonist
Tragedy
35. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Alliteration
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Anecdote
36. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
dramatic irony
Archaic (diction)
Allegory
Irony
37. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Euphemism
Ballad
dramatic irony
38. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Genre
Onomatopoeia
Epic
Narrative Point of View
39. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Camera view
Hubris
Refrain
Fairy Tale
40. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Limerick
Article
Holistic Scoring
41. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Clause
Personification
42. 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
First Person
Short story
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Character
43. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Clause
Personification
Participle
Colloquialisms (diction)
44. 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.
Metaphor
Fable
Semantics
Euphemism
45. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Frame tale
End rhyme
Metaphor
46. 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.
Romance
Essay
Myth
Parody
47. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Dialect
Malapropism
Genre
48. 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
Lyric
Meter
Foot
Ballad
49. 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 .
Caesura
Jargon
Allusion
Heroic couplet
50. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
Jargon
Onomatopoeia
Symbol