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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. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Voice
Dialect
Verse
2. U '
Personification
Syntax
Limerick
Iambic (foot)
3. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Trochaic (foot)
Allusion
Folktale
Novella
4. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Meter
Limerick
situation irony
5. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Diction
Character
Satire
Personification
6. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Narration
Dialect
Malapropism
7. The telling of a story.
Fable
Legend
Mood
Narration
8. 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 .
Repetition
Caesura
Alliteration
Stanza
9. The perspective from which a story is told.
Horror
Essay
Dialect (diction)
Point of View
10. 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.
Denouement
Simile
Hyperbole
Elegy
11. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Short story
Ballad
Symbol
Adjective
12. A person or being in a narrative
Aphorism
Analogy
Jargon
Character
13. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Participle
Colloquialisms (diction)
Rhythm
Short story
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
Legend
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Meter
Antagonist
15. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Denouement
Romance
Pragmatics
Haiku
16. 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
Autobiography
Apostrophe
Fantasy
End rhyme
17. 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
Mood
Profanity (diction)
Euphemism
Epic
18. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Fantasy
Tone
Setting
19. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Repetition
Ambiguity
Limited omniscient
Foot
20. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Phrase
Transcendentalism
Free verse
Folktale
21. 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
Protagonist
Western
Ballad
Jargon (diction)
22. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Double speak
End rhyme
Flashback
Voice
23. The study of the structure of words.
Assonance
Short story
Caesura
Morphology
24. 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
Dactylic
Flashback
Aphorism
Euphemism
25. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Genre
Camera view
Personification
Fable
26. 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.
Anapestic
Enjambment
Dactylic
Anapestic Meter
27. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Style
Vulgarity
Narrative Point of View
Colloquialisms (diction)
28. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Haiku
Euphemism
Pragmatics
Cliche
29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Tone
Blank verse
Imagery
Jargon
30. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Meter
Oxymoron
Morphology
31. 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
Western
Folktale
Oxymoron
Holistic Scoring
32. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Noun
Third Person
Personification
Autobiography
33. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Adjective
Plot
End rhyme
verbal irony
34. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Enjambment
Narration
Denouement
Conflict
35. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Foot
Antagonist
Dialect
Archaic (diction)
36. 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.
Western
Adverb
Connosance
Conjunction
37. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Syntax
Imagery
Camera view
Internal rhyme
38. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Morphology
Epic
Preposition
39. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
situation irony
Adjective
Ambiguity
Folktale
40. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Phrase
Horror
Point of View
Existentialism
41. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Blank verse
Mystery
Profanity (diction)
Stanza
42. The study of the structure of sentences.
Jargon
Pragmatics
Ambiguity
Syntax
43. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Plot
Participle
Protagonist
Denouement
44. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Trochaic (foot)
Fairy Tale
situation irony
Denotation
45. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Pronoun
Personification
Voice
Internal rhyme
46. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Style
Dialect
Mood
Phrase
47. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Moral
Phonology
Dactylic
Malapropism
48. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Hyperbole
Plot
Limerick
49. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Antagonist
Character
Noun
Connosance
50. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Parody
Tragedy
Alliteration
Dialect (diction)