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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 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
Preposition
Flashback
Personification
Fairy Tale
2. 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
Parody
Myth
Denouement
3. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Slang (diction)
4 sentence types
Sonnet
4. The study of the structure of words.
Paradox
Morphology
Connotation
Hubris
5. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Irony
Aphorism
Clause
dramatic irony
6. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Lyric
Double speak
First Person
7. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Ballad
Setting
Genre
Vulgarity
8. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Tone
Clause
Dialect
Essay
9. 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.
Preposition
Elegy
Fable
Meter
10. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
First Person
Moral
Archaic (diction)
Personification
11. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Canto
4 sentence types
Euphemism
Narration
12. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Setting
Genre
Hubris
Frame tale
13. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
etymology
Western
Phrase
Slang (diction)
14. A story about a person's life written by another person.
4 sentence types
Repetition
Setting
Biography
15. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Metaphor
First Person
Personification
Folktale
16. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Ambiguity
Voice
Oxymoron
Phrase
17. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Historical fiction
Setting
Frame tale
18. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Historical fiction
Euphemism
Tone
End rhyme
19. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Setting
Pragmatics
Paradox
Stanza
20. A person or being in a narrative
Folktale
Analogy
Simile
Character
21. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Semantics
Verb
Refrain
Protagonist
22. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Narrative Point of View
situation irony
Mystery
Heroic couplet
23. The telling of a story.
Short story
Narration
Semantics
Anecdote
24. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Elegy
Participle
Semantics
Lyric
25. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Diction
Antagonist
Morphology
26. 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
Colloquialisms (diction)
Hubris
Onomatopoeia
27. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Fable
Double speak
Verse
Mystery
28. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Parody
Heroic couplet
Alliteration
Meter
29. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Dialect
Point of View
Slang (diction)
30. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
etymology
Omniscient
dramatic irony
Novella
31. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Simile
situation irony
End rhyme
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Slang (diction)
Simile
Syntax
33. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Jargon
Ballad
Fairy Tale
Blank verse
34. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Setting
Antagonist
Novel
Dialect
35. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
dramatic irony
Article
Foot
Voice
36. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Semantics
Alliteration
Irony
37. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Internal rhyme
Phonetics
Connosance
Epic
38. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Conflict
Satire
Essay
Denotation
39. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Style
Plot
40. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Oxymoron
Myth
Clause
41. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Phonology
Foreshadowing
Legend
Hubris
42. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Participle
Refrain
Conflict
Anapestic
43. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Antagonist
Ballad
Camera view
Internal rhyme
44. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Simile
Mystery
Malapropism
Metaphor
45. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Parody
Ballad
dramatic irony
Double speak
46. 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.
Heroic couplet
Mystery
Satire
Science fiction
47. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Refrain
Apostrophe
Plot
48. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Novella
Jargon
Iambic (foot)
Genre
49. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Semantics
Elegy
4 sentence types
Anecdote
50. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Adverb
Third Person
Narration