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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 literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Protagonist
Holistic Scoring
Foreshadowing
Morphology
2. 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.
Euphemism
Myth
Antagonist
Paradox
3. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Omniscient
Existentialism
Setting
Characterization
4. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Adjective
Tragedy
Style
5. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Rhetoric
Cliche
Verb
Participle
6. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Hyperbole
Conflict
Frame tale
Free verse
7. 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.
Fable
Horror
Anapestic
Symbol
8. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Essay
Jargon
verbal irony
Internal rhyme
9. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Slang (diction)
Moral
Omniscient
Third Person
10. 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
Dactylic
Legend
Allegory
Alliteration
11. 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
Tragedy
Antagonist
Noun
Fairy Tale
12. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Anapestic
Dialect (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Article
13. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Conjunction
Profanity (diction)
Flashback
14. The study of the orgin of words
Genre
etymology
Sonnet
Short story
15. 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
Verse
Apostrophe
Narrative Point of View
Limited omniscient
16. U U '
Slang (diction)
Frame tale
Anapestic
Symbol
17. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Dialect
Historical fiction
Transcendentalism
Voice
18. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Ballad
Hubris
Euphemism
End rhyme
19. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Antagonist
Verse
Character
First Person
20. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Allegory
Diction
Vulgarity
Romance
21. 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
Mood
Romance
Alliteration
Western
22. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Euphemism
Cliche
First Person
23. The main section of a long poem.
Morphology
Camera view
Transcendentalism
Canto
24. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Analogy
Ambiguity
Tone
Holistic Scoring
25. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Romance
Colloquialisms (diction)
Stanza
26. 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.
Verse
Dialect (diction)
Vulgarity
Limerick
27. 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
Couplet
Antagonist
Simile
Sonnet
28. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Allusion
Existentialism
Limited omniscient
29. The telling of a story.
Assonance
Iambic (foot)
Narration
Denotation
30. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Mystery
Genre
Morphology
Denotation
31. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Meter
Irony
situation irony
32. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Connosance
Stanza
Article
33. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Ambiguity
Tone
Meter
34. 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
Fantasy
Dialect
Rhythm
Third Person
35. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Caesura
Mystery
Genre
36. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Anapestic Meter
Character
Connotation
37. 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
Clause
Allegory
Satire
Essay
38. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Haiku
Genre
Omniscient
Anapestic Meter
39. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Verse
Assonance
Style
Tragedy
40. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Verse
Profanity (diction)
Refrain
Short story
41. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Character
Phrase
Denotation
Enjambment
42. The perspective from which a story is told.
Sonnet
Free verse
Point of View
Repetition
43. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Conflict
Rhetoric
Third Person
Canto
44. The writer says one thing and means another
Onomatopoeia
verbal irony
Double speak
Anapestic Meter
45. 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.
Adjective
Conjunction
Voice
verbal irony
46. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Science fiction
Folktale
Colloquialisms (diction)
47. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Plot
Fairy Tale
Dialect
Anecdote
48. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Rhythm
Hyperbole
Couplet
49. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Phrase
Adjective
Biography
Canto
50. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Syntax
Free verse
Limerick