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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 humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Limerick
Lyric
Alliteration
Historical fiction
2. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Apostrophe
Free verse
Autobiography
Biography
3. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Iambic (foot)
Allusion
Morphology
Rhythm
4. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Anapestic
Rhetoric
Denouement
Noun
5. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t
Flashback
Foot
Anapestic Meter
Repetition
6. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
End rhyme
Profanity (diction)
Apostrophe
Moral
7. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Apostrophe
Dialect
Double speak
Foot
8. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Mystery
Genre
Parody
Clause
9. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Western
Existentialism
Iambic (foot)
Setting
10. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.
Mood
Irony
Free verse
Personification
11. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Iambic (foot)
Trochaic (foot)
Point of View
12. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Anapestic
Alliteration
13. 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
Caesura
Double speak
Tone
Document (letter - diary - journal)
14. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Third Person
situation irony
Novella
15. U '
Iambic (foot)
Style
Lyric
End rhyme
16. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Autobiography
Dialect (diction)
Flashback
Sonnet
17. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
4 sentence types
Omniscient
Mystery
First Person
18. U U '
Irony
Anapestic
Analogy
Foot
19. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Myth
Paradox
Antagonist
situation irony
20. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Alliteration
Hubris
Pragmatics
Verse
21. 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.
Morphology
First Person
Refrain
Hyperbole
22. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Iambic (foot)
Couplet
Rhetoric
Verb
23. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Vulgarity
Elegy
Camera view
Jargon (diction)
24. 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
Irony
Dactylic
Anecdote
25. 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
Cliche
Legend
Holistic Scoring
Fairy Tale
26. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Alliteration
Vulgarity
Blank verse
Colloquialisms (diction)
27. 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.
dramatic irony
Euphemism
Existentialism
Anapestic
28. A person or being in a narrative
Character
etymology
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
29. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Personification
Meter
Rhetoric
Assonance
30. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Biography
Characterization
Ambiguity
31. 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.
Semantics
Allegory
Holistic Scoring
Simile
32. The perspective from which a story is told.
Voice
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Point of View
Anecdote
33. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Heroic couplet
Aphorism
Fantasy
Imagery
34. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Limited omniscient
dramatic irony
Oxymoron
Paradox
35. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Romance
Genre
Narration
Analogy
36. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Meter
Narrative Point of View
Holistic Scoring
Rhetoric
37. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Enjambment
Ambiguity
Connosance
38. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Dactylic
Plot
Transcendentalism
39. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Dactylic
Allegory
Style
First Person
40. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Phonology
Allegory
Morphology
Dialect (diction)
41. 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
Enjambment
Narration
Novel
Clause
42. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Parody
First Person
Refrain
Repetition
43. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Diction
Stanza
Ambiguity
44. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Anecdote
Jargon (diction)
Clause
Rhetoric
45. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Third Person
Dialect
Historical fiction
46. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Parody
Fairy Tale
Science fiction
Foreshadowing
47. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Character
Connosance
Sonnet
48. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Adverb
Omniscient
Meter
49. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
verbal irony
Dialect
Allegory
Connotation
50. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Refrain
Conflict
4 sentence types
Hyperbole