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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. ' U
Connosance
Allusion
Trochaic (foot)
Third Person
2. Persuasive writing.
Essay
Rhetoric
Denouement
Morphology
3. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Essay
Dialect (diction)
Repetition
4. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Dialect
Noun
Connosance
Conjunction
5. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
etymology
Metaphor
Moral
6. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Apostrophe
Third Person
Enjambment
4 sentence types
7. 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.
Style
Irony
Omniscient
Novel
8. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Short story
Folktale
Profanity (diction)
Connosance
9. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Euphemism
Paradox
Ambiguity
10. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Couplet
Dialect
Slang (diction)
Characterization
11. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Anapestic Meter
Diction
Denouement
Limited omniscient
12. The perspective from which a story is told.
Trochaic (foot)
Characterization
Point of View
Article
13. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Enjambment
Voice
Dactylic
Genre
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
Irony
Jargon (diction)
Short story
Plot
15. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Semantics
Aphorism
Essay
Third Person
16. 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
Myth
Western
Conflict
Denouement
17. The main character or hero of a written work.
Autobiography
Fable
Point of View
Protagonist
18. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Dialect
Simile
19. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Anapestic Meter
Phrase
Canto
20. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Diction
Folktale
Narrative Point of View
Iambic (foot)
21. 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
End rhyme
Romance
Folktale
Tragedy
22. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Preposition
Ballad
Flashback
First Person
23. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Mood
Euphemism
Clause
Analogy
24. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Ambiguity
Novel
dramatic irony
25. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
etymology
Simile
Analogy
Tragedy
26. The main section of a long poem.
Satire
Allusion
Morphology
Canto
27. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.
Jargon (diction)
Limerick
Oxymoron
Conjunction
28. 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.
Hubris
Camera view
Existentialism
Preposition
29. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Holistic Scoring
Style
Novella
Connosance
30. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Moral
Limerick
Verse
Personification
31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Existentialism
Phonology
Lyric
Moral
32. The telling of a story.
Narration
Dactylic
Horror
Short story
33. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Mystery
Trochaic (foot)
Symbol
Enjambment
34. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Conjunction
Preposition
Cliche
Sonnet
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.
Elegy
Mystery
Ambiguity
Aphorism
36. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes
Simile
Enjambment
First Person
Protagonist
37. 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.
Phonology
Allusion
Pronoun
Rhythm
38. 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.
Camera view
Limerick
Rhythm
Pragmatics
39. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Legend
Tone
Denouement
Slang (diction)
40. ' U U
Elegy
Dactylic
Aphorism
Clause
41. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Style
Tragedy
Setting
Narrative Point of View
42. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Imagery
4 sentence types
Internal rhyme
Sonnet
43. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Fable
etymology
dramatic irony
44. 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
Profanity (diction)
Conflict
Sonnet
Novel
45. 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.
Dialect
Myth
Anecdote
Adjective
46. 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.
Plot
Horror
Fable
Novella
47. 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.
Morphology
Trochaic (foot)
Holistic Scoring
Myth
48. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Couplet
Protagonist
Essay
Jargon
49. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
verbal irony
Dialect
Preposition
Irony
50. 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
Flashback
Phrase
End rhyme