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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. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Verse
Novella
Blank verse
Setting
2. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Style
Pragmatics
Irony
Dialect
3. 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.
First Person
Blank verse
Camera view
Elegy
4. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Phrase
Internal rhyme
Hyperbole
Fairy Tale
5. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Hubris
Cliche
Verb
Ballad
6. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Phrase
Genre
Verb
Iambic (foot)
7. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Morphology
Allegory
Lyric
Metaphor
8. 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
Plot
Anapestic Meter
Repetition
Folktale
9. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
Morphology
First Person
10. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Analogy
Colloquialisms (diction)
dramatic irony
Dialect
11. 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.
Historical fiction
Lyric
Horror
Allusion
12. 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
Satire
Existentialism
Genre
Fairy Tale
13. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Genre
Myth
Lyric
Hubris
14. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
Horror
Paradox
Foreshadowing
15. 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
Haiku
Novel
Preposition
16. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Rhetoric
Historical fiction
Allegory
Point of View
17. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Imagery
Satire
Novella
Voice
18. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Western
Moral
Anapestic
etymology
19. A person or being in a narrative
Imagery
Clause
Hubris
Character
20. The main character or hero of a written work.
Setting
Archaic (diction)
Protagonist
Novella
21. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Holistic Scoring
Assonance
Participle
Dialect (diction)
22. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Onomatopoeia
Ambiguity
Horror
Verse
23. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Romance
Semantics
Slang (diction)
Noun
24. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Ballad
Caesura
Enjambment
Setting
25. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Double speak
Third Person
Genre
26. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Phonology
Aphorism
Dialect
Sonnet
27. 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.
Stanza
Narration
Aphorism
Moral
28. 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
Foot
Antagonist
Camera view
Fable
29. 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
Lyric
Rhythm
Short story
Jargon
30. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Mood
Satire
Science fiction
Genre
31. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Ambiguity
Antagonist
Plot
Phonetics
32. The study of the orgin of words
Conjunction
Ambiguity
Connotation
etymology
33. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Fantasy
Heroic couplet
Assonance
Myth
34. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Parody
Onomatopoeia
Rhythm
Symbol
35. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Epic
Transcendentalism
Archaic (diction)
Profanity (diction)
36. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Mystery
Euphemism
Anapestic Meter
Heroic couplet
37. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
etymology
Denouement
Repetition
Vulgarity
38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Personification
Hubris
etymology
Alliteration
39. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Profanity (diction)
Flashback
Protagonist
40. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Fantasy
Aphorism
Symbol
Ballad
41. ' U
Enjambment
Trochaic (foot)
Adjective
Meter
42. 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
Mood
Sonnet
Novella
Iambic (foot)
43. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Satire
Malapropism
Flashback
Foreshadowing
44. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Dialect
Archaic (diction)
Anapestic Meter
Myth
45. 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.
Myth
etymology
Preposition
Double speak
46. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Heroic couplet
Style
situation irony
Trochaic (foot)
47. 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.
Vulgarity
Adjective
Novella
Verb
48. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Allegory
Voice
Horror
Free verse
49. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Phrase
End rhyme
Novel
50. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Setting
Foreshadowing
Rhythm
Double speak