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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. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






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






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






4. Persuasive writing.






5. The study of the orgin of words






6. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






7. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






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






10. 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.






11. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






15. 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






16. 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






17. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






18. 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.






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20. 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






21. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






23. 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.






24. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






25. 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.






26. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






27. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






30. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






31. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






32. 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.






33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






35. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






36. 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






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






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






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






40. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






41. A person or being in a narrative






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






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






49. 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






50. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.