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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'
Noun
Elegy
Slang (diction)
Conflict
2. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
First Person
Vulgarity
Couplet
Ballad
3. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Jargon (diction)
Autobiography
Style
Dialect (diction)
4. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Autobiography
Omniscient
Essay
Document (letter - diary - journal)
5. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Cliche
Jargon
Syntax
6. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Verse
Irony
Double speak
Onomatopoeia
7. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Transcendentalism
Assonance
Personification
Adverb
8. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Essay
Antagonist
Hubris
Diction
9. 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
Lyric
Antagonist
Frame tale
Ambiguity
10. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Antagonist
Euphemism
Narrative Point of View
Ambiguity
11. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Legend
Canto
Plot
12. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Myth
Rhetoric
Verse
Pragmatics
13. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Diction
Cliche
End rhyme
14. The main section of a long poem.
Frame tale
Canto
Voice
End rhyme
15. 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.
Horror
Epic
4 sentence types
Point of View
16. 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
Paradox
Double speak
Hubris
Foot
17. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Novel
Vulgarity
Clause
18. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Characterization
Pronoun
Trochaic (foot)
Rhythm
19. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
4 sentence types
Euphemism
Malapropism
Syntax
20. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
etymology
Participle
Haiku
Article
21. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Internal rhyme
Narration
Parody
Pronoun
22. 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
Hubris
Phrase
Trochaic (foot)
23. ' U
Dactylic
Lyric
Trochaic (foot)
Internal rhyme
24. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Analogy
Paradox
Rhetoric
Romance
25. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Jargon (diction)
Third Person
Allegory
26. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Mood
Fairy Tale
Anapestic Meter
Tragedy
27. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Caesura
Refrain
Hyperbole
Meter
28. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Omniscient
Denouement
Historical fiction
Internal rhyme
29. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
End rhyme
verbal irony
Internal rhyme
30. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Canto
Genre
Caesura
Cliche
31. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Trochaic (foot)
Internal rhyme
Fable
Tragedy
32. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Apostrophe
Connotation
Heroic couplet
Antagonist
33. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Dactylic
Fable
situation irony
Camera view
34. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Western
Apostrophe
Phonology
Meter
35. 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
Folktale
Phrase
Style
Dactylic
36. 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.
Protagonist
Myth
Trochaic (foot)
Symbol
37. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Caesura
Dialect
Phrase
38. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Apostrophe
dramatic irony
Horror
Symbol
39. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Genre
Metaphor
Symbol
Analogy
40. 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.
Diction
Slang (diction)
Camera view
Western
41. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Jargon
Iambic (foot)
Internal rhyme
Simile
42. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Frame tale
Autobiography
Biography
Malapropism
43. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Myth
Stanza
Noun
Connotation
44. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Moral
Trochaic (foot)
Protagonist
Allusion
45. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Dialect
Foot
Euphemism
Imagery
46. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Personification
Limited omniscient
Free verse
Heroic couplet
47. 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.
Adverb
Verb
Ballad
Haiku
48. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Biography
Fairy Tale
Personification
Rhythm
49. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Denouement
Essay
Blank verse
50. 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
Malapropism
Fairy Tale
Novella