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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. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






2. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






3. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






4. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






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






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






7. The time and place in which a story occurs.






8. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






9. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






10. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






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






12. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






13. 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






14. 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






15. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






16. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






17. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






18. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






19. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






20. 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






21. The study of the structure of sentences.






22. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






23. 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.






24. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






25. 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.'






26. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






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






28. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






29. A wise saying - usually short and written.






30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






31. 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






32. 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






33. The main section of a long poem.






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






35. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






37. 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.






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






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






40. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






41. 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






42. 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






43. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






44. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






45. The study of the orgin of words






46. 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






47. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






49. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






50. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.