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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 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.
Anapestic Meter
Adverb
Ambiguity
Document (letter - diary - journal)
2. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Novel
Mood
Fairy Tale
Third Person
3. 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
4 sentence types
Satire
Camera view
Foot
4. 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.
Malapropism
Participle
Verb
Existentialism
5. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Analogy
Connotation
Hubris
6. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Horror
Fable
Oxymoron
Imagery
7. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Lyric
Novella
Jargon
Omniscient
8. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Adverb
Mystery
Antagonist
9. ' U U
Folktale
Mystery
Hubris
Dactylic
10. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Rhetoric
Existentialism
Ballad
Enjambment
11. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Stanza
Genre
Phrase
Plot
12. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Transcendentalism
Epic
Satire
13. 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.
Irony
Diction
Slang (diction)
Allegory
14. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Anapestic
Phonology
First Person
Article
15. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Parody
Verb
Phrase
Adverb
16. The telling of a story.
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Novella
Narration
17. The main character or hero of a written work.
Morphology
Omniscient
Protagonist
Western
18. 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
Double speak
Personification
Refrain
19. 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
Moral
Stanza
Double speak
20. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Phonetics
Jargon
Vulgarity
End rhyme
21. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Noun
Preposition
Genre
22. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Anecdote
Denouement
Rhythm
Diction
23. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Character
Morphology
Oxymoron
Internal rhyme
24. 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.
Slang (diction)
Hyperbole
Camera view
Syntax
25. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Parody
Romance
Plot
Limited omniscient
26. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Limerick
Personification
Horror
Metaphor
27. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Euphemism
Internal rhyme
Conflict
Analogy
28. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Verse
Connotation
Tragedy
Camera view
29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Preposition
Symbol
Blank verse
Romance
30. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Satire
Mood
Transcendentalism
Tone
31. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Internal rhyme
Imagery
Science fiction
Euphemism
32. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Clause
Flashback
Western
Limited omniscient
33. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
End rhyme
Refrain
Double speak
Heroic couplet
34. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Anapestic Meter
Antagonist
Clause
35. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Iambic (foot)
Point of View
verbal irony
Phonetics
36. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Pragmatics
Phonology
Phonetics
37. 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.
Science fiction
situation irony
Phonetics
Foot
38. 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
Legend
Dialect
Blank verse
Vulgarity
39. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Biography
Simile
Folktale
40. 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.
Science fiction
Enjambment
Parody
Conjunction
41. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Folktale
Voice
Dactylic
42. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Epic
Sonnet
Narrative Point of View
Archaic (diction)
43. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Blank verse
Mystery
Connosance
Simile
44. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Oxymoron
Allegory
Semantics
Pragmatics
45. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Rhetoric
Romance
Dactylic
46. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Myth
Autobiography
Pronoun
Oxymoron
47. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Protagonist
Lyric
Internal rhyme
Frame tale
48. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Haiku
Slang (diction)
Tragedy
Biography
49. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Phonology
Fable
Stanza
50. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Hubris
Ballad
Dialect (diction)
Rhythm