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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Archaic (diction)
Phrase
Mystery
2. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Autobiography
Ballad
dramatic irony
3. 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
Epic
Archaic (diction)
Double speak
4. 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
Euphemism
Mystery
Dialect (diction)
Syntax
5. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Denotation
End rhyme
Limerick
6. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Internal rhyme
Transcendentalism
Folktale
7. 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
Euphemism
Camera view
Enjambment
Couplet
8. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Connotation
End rhyme
Free verse
Archaic (diction)
9. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Essay
Fable
Symbol
Vulgarity
10. 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.
Existentialism
Science fiction
Semantics
Mystery
11. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Biography
Article
Satire
dramatic irony
12. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Epic
Article
Caesura
13. 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.
Phrase
Slang (diction)
Parody
Adverb
14. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Plot
Stanza
Mystery
Blank verse
15. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Semantics
Antagonist
Assonance
Blank verse
16. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Anapestic
Setting
Dialect
Dialect (diction)
17. The study of the orgin of words
Science fiction
Trochaic (foot)
Existentialism
etymology
18. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Biography
Moral
Verse
19. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Phonetics
Caesura
Dialect
Moral
20. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Connosance
Phrase
Phonology
Foot
21. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Denotation
Biography
Participle
Existentialism
22. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Western
Irony
Point of View
23. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Jargon (diction)
Protagonist
Moral
Setting
24. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Rhetoric
Denotation
First Person
Fable
25. 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
Existentialism
Tone
Short story
Mood
26. A person or being in a narrative
Setting
Character
Horror
Foot
27. The telling of a story.
Narration
Stanza
Iambic (foot)
Mood
28. 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.
Transcendentalism
Adjective
Phonology
Meter
29. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Frame tale
Fable
Morphology
30. 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
Romance
Western
Metaphor
Personification
31. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Fairy Tale
Denouement
Myth
Profanity (diction)
32. 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.
Rhetoric
Narration
Holistic Scoring
Dialect
33. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Allusion
Narrative Point of View
Sonnet
34. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Horror
Meter
Verse
Connosance
35. 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.'
Elegy
Conjunction
Symbol
Archaic (diction)
36. ' U
Jargon
Trochaic (foot)
Flashback
Verb
37. 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
Antagonist
Anecdote
Mystery
Fantasy
38. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Existentialism
Anecdote
Novel
Historical fiction
39. 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
Voice
Biography
Aphorism
40. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Jargon
Assonance
Anapestic
41. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Sonnet
Malapropism
Metaphor
Narration
42. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Semantics
Archaic (diction)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Assonance
43. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Phrase
Fairy Tale
Tragedy
Protagonist
44. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Autobiography
Internal rhyme
Canto
45. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Pragmatics
Participle
Anapestic
Rhetoric
46. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Essay
Colloquialisms (diction)
Horror
Fantasy
47. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Internal rhyme
Romance
Paradox
Noun
48. 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.
Conjunction
Ambiguity
Dialect (diction)
Onomatopoeia
49. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Tone
Free verse
Simile
Metaphor
50. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
etymology
Denouement
Internal rhyme
Adverb