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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. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Transcendentalism
Fable
Oxymoron
Noun
2. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
First Person
Heroic couplet
Fairy Tale
Rhetoric
3. ' U U
Dactylic
Phrase
Phonology
Science fiction
4. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Phonetics
End rhyme
Characterization
Jargon
5. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Short story
Connosance
Character
Phrase
6. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Ballad
Mood
Narrative Point of View
7. 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.
Hyperbole
Dactylic
Article
Ballad
8. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Phonetics
Phrase
Conflict
9. 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.
Haiku
Romance
Transcendentalism
Historical fiction
10. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
situation irony
Alliteration
Free verse
Antagonist
11. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Myth
Limited omniscient
Tragedy
12. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Hubris
Dialect
Satire
Ballad
13. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Personification
Pragmatics
Historical fiction
Colloquialisms (diction)
14. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Symbol
Tone
Jargon
Heroic couplet
15. 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
Dialect
Phonetics
Apostrophe
Anapestic
16. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Phonetics
Profanity (diction)
Moral
Dialect
17. U U '
Stanza
Anapestic
Vulgarity
Plot
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
Romance
Mystery
Satire
Fairy Tale
19. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Moral
Archaic (diction)
Anapestic Meter
Plot
20. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Jargon (diction)
Tragedy
Narration
Autobiography
21. The perspective from which a story is told.
Romance
Point of View
Transcendentalism
Haiku
22. Persuasive writing.
Onomatopoeia
Rhetoric
Voice
Foreshadowing
23. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Assonance
Profanity (diction)
Mood
Romance
24. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Mood
Dialect
Genre
Colloquialisms (diction)
25. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Denotation
Limited omniscient
Biography
26. 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.
Vulgarity
Limerick
Romance
Preposition
27. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Simile
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
End rhyme
28. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Existentialism
Simile
Participle
Hubris
29. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Canto
Tone
Internal rhyme
Style
30. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Free verse
Symbol
Allusion
Participle
31. ' U
Personification
Point of View
Trochaic (foot)
Internal rhyme
32. 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
Enjambment
Mood
Denotation
33. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Euphemism
Historical fiction
Anapestic
Double speak
34. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Oxymoron
Paradox
Vulgarity
35. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Meter
Transcendentalism
Narrative Point of View
End rhyme
36. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Lyric
Elegy
Anapestic Meter
37. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Ballad
Lyric
Oxymoron
Refrain
38. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Hyperbole
Hubris
Lyric
39. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Participle
Moral
Adverb
Phrase
40. 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
Heroic couplet
Western
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
41. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Holistic Scoring
Article
Antagonist
Free verse
42. 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
Pragmatics
Blank verse
Legend
First Person
43. A wise saying - usually short and written.
4 sentence types
Aphorism
Frame tale
Tone
44. The study of the structure of words.
Enjambment
Morphology
Noun
Narration
45. The telling of a story.
Moral
Narration
Phonology
Pragmatics
46. 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.
Diction
Article
Existentialism
Antagonist
47. 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
Sonnet
Fantasy
Free verse
Western
48. 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.'
Jargon
Narration
Elegy
Pronoun
49. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Style
Point of View
Allegory
Alliteration
50. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Oxymoron
Anapestic Meter
Historical fiction
Metaphor