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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. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Lyric
Heroic couplet
Noun
2. 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.
Haiku
Canto
Hyperbole
Caesura
3. The writer says one thing and means another
Hubris
verbal irony
Connotation
Archaic (diction)
4. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Verb
Phonology
Voice
Dialect
5. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
dramatic irony
Noun
Dialect
Euphemism
6. 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
Anapestic
Point of View
Epic
Irony
7. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Novel
Allegory
Conjunction
Holistic Scoring
8. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Slang (diction)
Setting
Personification
Imagery
9. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Point of View
Anecdote
Symbol
Apostrophe
10. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Profanity (diction)
Lyric
Blank verse
Colloquialisms (diction)
11. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Hubris
Symbol
Verse
Oxymoron
12. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Foot
Phrase
Dialect
13. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Legend
Novella
Personification
Jargon
14. 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
Fairy Tale
Dialect
Short story
Historical fiction
15. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Moral
Hubris
Meter
16. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Dialect (diction)
Caesura
Allegory
Free verse
17. 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
Point of View
Fairy Tale
Anapestic Meter
Ambiguity
18. 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.
Phrase
Western
Historical fiction
Fable
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
Tragedy
Noun
Refrain
Participle
20. 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.
Preposition
Denotation
Camera view
Meter
21. 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.
Euphemism
Pronoun
Morphology
Novella
22. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Connotation
4 sentence types
Paradox
Cliche
23. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Limerick
Characterization
Cliche
24. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Malapropism
Denouement
Syntax
Plot
25. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Clause
Anecdote
4 sentence types
End rhyme
26. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Enjambment
Point of View
Hubris
27. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Genre
Anecdote
Simile
Essay
28. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Tragedy
Clause
Moral
Haiku
29. Persuasive writing.
Blank verse
Rhetoric
Foreshadowing
Autobiography
30. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Frame tale
Repetition
Morphology
31. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Internal rhyme
Denouement
Folktale
32. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Character
Blank verse
Connotation
situation irony
33. 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.
dramatic irony
Characterization
Science fiction
Hyperbole
34. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Fable
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Omniscient
Tone
35. The main character or hero of a written work.
Apostrophe
Protagonist
Short story
Antagonist
36. 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
Anapestic
Fantasy
Double speak
Simile
37. 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
Personification
Myth
38. 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
Blank verse
Connosance
Euphemism
Canto
39. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
40. 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.
Dialect
Existentialism
situation irony
etymology
41. A person or being in a narrative
Anapestic
Existentialism
Voice
Character
42. The study of the structure of words.
Point of View
Characterization
dramatic irony
Morphology
43. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Foot
Assonance
Slang (diction)
situation irony
44. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Analogy
Profanity (diction)
End rhyme
45. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Dialect (diction)
Sonnet
Enjambment
46. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Flashback
Foot
Phrase
Rhythm
47. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo
Western
Article
Alliteration
Satire
48. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Sonnet
Profanity (diction)
Verb
Limerick
49. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Flashback
Fantasy
Participle
verbal irony
50. 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.
Irony
Repetition
Phrase
situation irony