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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. 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
Apostrophe
Ballad
Rhetoric
Denotation
2. The perspective from which a story is told.
Anecdote
Cliche
Profanity (diction)
Point of View
3. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Caesura
Pragmatics
Onomatopoeia
Conflict
4. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Morphology
Verb
Verse
Participle
5. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Novel
Rhythm
Setting
Aphorism
6. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
Foot
Symbol
7. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Flashback
Existentialism
Protagonist
Clause
8. 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
Euphemism
Canto
Rhythm
Character
9. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Connosance
Verse
Anecdote
Simile
10. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Point of View
Free verse
Archaic (diction)
Oxymoron
11. 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
Enjambment
Oxymoron
Third Person
Semantics
12. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
verbal irony
Free verse
Biography
13. 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
Aphorism
Voice
Folktale
14. 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
Clause
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Dialect (diction)
Tone
15. 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
Characterization
Legend
Rhythm
Point of View
16. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Adverb
Symbol
Elegy
Setting
17. U '
Lyric
etymology
Iambic (foot)
verbal irony
18. 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
Conflict
Romance
Ballad
Simile
19. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Morphology
Character
Article
Noun
20. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Frame tale
Cliche
Point of View
Assonance
21. The study of the meaning in language.
Blank verse
Adverb
Semantics
Meter
22. 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
Trochaic (foot)
Foot
Horror
Connosance
23. 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.
Conjunction
Historical fiction
Novella
etymology
24. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Simile
Profanity (diction)
Couplet
Western
25. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Hubris
Pronoun
Phonetics
Science fiction
26. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Fairy Tale
Narration
Legend
Personification
27. 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
Iambic (foot)
Western
Rhetoric
Myth
28. U U '
Western
Flashback
Anapestic
Sonnet
29. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Denotation
Phrase
Metaphor
Holistic Scoring
30. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
End rhyme
Antagonist
Slang (diction)
31. 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
Essay
Morphology
Characterization
Science fiction
32. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Existentialism
Diction
Clause
First Person
33. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Omniscient
Denouement
Rhythm
Document (letter - diary - journal)
34. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Paradox
End rhyme
Transcendentalism
Allegory
35. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Stanza
Archaic (diction)
Parody
Anapestic
36. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Dactylic
Allegory
Camera view
Conflict
37. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Oxymoron
Western
Narrative Point of View
verbal irony
38. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Free verse
Allegory
Couplet
39. 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
Enjambment
Euphemism
verbal irony
Folktale
40. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Syntax
Fairy Tale
Participle
41. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
Setting
Moral
42. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Antagonist
Anapestic Meter
Novella
Conflict
43. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Protagonist
verbal irony
Folktale
44. An extended fictional prose narrative.
dramatic irony
Legend
Novel
Aphorism
45. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Point of View
Epic
Mystery
Verse
46. 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
Existentialism
Folktale
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Frame tale
47. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Verb
Analogy
Flashback
Clause
48. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Biography
Hubris
Mood
Frame tale
49. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Essay
Symbol
Existentialism
Genre
50. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Analogy
Trochaic (foot)
Mood
Diction