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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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1. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Verb
Myth
Imagery
Paradox
2. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Fantasy
Rhetoric
Biography
Connosance
3. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Slang (diction)
Assonance
Denouement
4. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Denotation
Meter
Canto
Preposition
5. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Characterization
Metaphor
Jargon (diction)
6. 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.
Limerick
Mood
Narration
Diction
7. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Satire
Assonance
Characterization
Epic
8. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Science fiction
Setting
Profanity (diction)
9. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Dialect
Essay
Antagonist
Autobiography
10. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Legend
Repetition
Dialect
Third Person
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Cliche
Anapestic
Archaic (diction)
Allegory
12. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Moral
Frame tale
Point of View
13. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Couplet
Setting
Vulgarity
Canto
14. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Foreshadowing
Paradox
Colloquialisms (diction)
Adjective
15. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Tragedy
Denotation
Enjambment
16. 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.
Mystery
Apostrophe
Characterization
Morphology
17. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Article
Repetition
Connosance
18. 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
Profanity (diction)
Legend
Clause
Metaphor
19. 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.
Foreshadowing
Existentialism
Metaphor
Connosance
20. 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.
Tragedy
Horror
Fairy Tale
Adverb
21. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
Cliche
Lyric
Internal rhyme
22. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Myth
Alliteration
dramatic irony
Diction
23. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.
Fairy Tale
Haiku
Colloquialisms (diction)
Blank verse
24. 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
Jargon (diction)
Autobiography
Morphology
Frame tale
25. ' U U
Dactylic
Pragmatics
Malapropism
Refrain
26. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Tragedy
Limerick
Character
27. 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
Holistic Scoring
Hyperbole
Setting
28. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Oxymoron
Phonology
Elegy
Allegory
29. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Clause
Denouement
Canto
Narration
30. 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
Alliteration
Euphemism
Meter
Archaic (diction)
31. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Simile
Repetition
Ballad
Autobiography
32. 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
Article
Antagonist
Dactylic
33. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Haiku
Colloquialisms (diction)
Phrase
Slang (diction)
34. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Simile
Blank verse
Mood
Tone
35. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Mood
Fable
Romance
36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Denotation
Camera view
Dactylic
Omniscient
37. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Repetition
Novella
Omniscient
Malapropism
38. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Limerick
Western
Existentialism
Moral
39. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Moral
Meter
Verse
Article
40. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Pragmatics
Conflict
Myth
Narrative Point of View
41. The telling of a story.
Narration
Internal rhyme
Fable
Setting
42. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Fantasy
Paradox
Folktale
43. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
situation irony
Canto
Novel
44. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Enjambment
Slang (diction)
Phonology
Diction
45. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Horror
Fantasy
Biography
Historical fiction
46. 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
Omniscient
Onomatopoeia
Verse
47. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Refrain
Point of View
Symbol
Jargon
48. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Profanity (diction)
Sonnet
Foreshadowing
Participle
49. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Oxymoron
Omniscient
Short story
Paradox
50. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Frame tale
Verb
Narrative Point of View
Participle