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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. 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






4. 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.






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6. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






7. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






8. The study of the meaning in language.






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10. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






11. 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.






12. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






13. 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.






14. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






15. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






16. The telling of a story.






17. The main character or hero of a written work.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






21. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






22. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






23. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






24. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






25. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






26. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






27. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






28. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






30. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






31. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






32. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






33. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






34. The story is told by someone outside the story.






35. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






36. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






40. 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.






41. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






42. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






43. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






44. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






45. A contradictory statement that makes sense






46. A person's account of his or hew own life.






47. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






48. A story about a person's life written by another person.






49. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






50. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.