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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






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






3. 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.






4. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






5. 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






6. 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






7. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






8. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






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






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






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






12. 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






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






14. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






15. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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






17. The main section of a long poem.






18. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






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






21. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






22. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






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






24. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






25. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






26. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






27. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






28. The writer says one thing and means another






29. 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






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






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






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






33. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






34. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






36. 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.






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38. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






39. 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.






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






41. 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






42. The perspective from which a story is told.






43. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






45. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






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






48. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






49. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






50. A person or being in a narrative