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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. 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.
Voice
Horror
Antagonist
Science fiction
2. 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
Phonology
Antagonist
Legend
Caesura
3. 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
Characterization
verbal irony
Essay
4. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
First Person
Ballad
Repetition
Enjambment
5. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Verb
Participle
Limited omniscient
Diction
6. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Camera view
Metaphor
Narrative Point of View
Phonetics
7. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.
Myth
Anapestic Meter
Short story
Adjective
8. A person or being in a narrative
Aphorism
Character
Tragedy
Lyric
9. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Character
Protagonist
Irony
Onomatopoeia
10. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Setting
Characterization
Phrase
Allusion
11. 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.
Malapropism
Pragmatics
Colloquialisms (diction)
Hyperbole
12. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Connosance
Meter
Genre
Document (letter - diary - journal)
13. 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.
Preposition
Conjunction
Dialect (diction)
Allegory
14. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Legend
Transcendentalism
Dialect
Couplet
15. 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
Pragmatics
Preposition
Biography
16. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Setting
Trochaic (foot)
Participle
Double speak
17. ' U U
Fairy Tale
Dactylic
Enjambment
Double speak
18. U U '
Assonance
Cliche
Fantasy
Anapestic
19. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Anecdote
Foot
Western
Denouement
20. 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.
Blank verse
Double speak
Haiku
Allegory
21. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Epic
Legend
Third Person
22. 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
Ballad
Frame tale
Phonology
End rhyme
23. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Omniscient
Denotation
Antagonist
Transcendentalism
24. 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
Epic
Cliche
Internal rhyme
Imagery
25. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Dialect
Syntax
Allegory
26. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Anapestic
Metaphor
Canto
Haiku
27. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Assonance
dramatic irony
Morphology
Hubris
28. 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
Personification
Simile
situation irony
29. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Verse
Caesura
Dactylic
30. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Camera view
Mood
Caesura
dramatic irony
31. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Style
Plot
Aphorism
32. 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.
Elegy
Genre
Iambic (foot)
Adverb
33. 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.'
Connotation
Existentialism
Elegy
Symbol
34. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Omniscient
verbal irony
Science fiction
35. 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
situation irony
Pronoun
Apostrophe
Verb
36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Horror
Noun
Moral
Limited omniscient
37. The perspective from which a story is told.
Horror
Iambic (foot)
Point of View
End rhyme
38. 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
Protagonist
Elegy
dramatic irony
Euphemism
39. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Symbol
Protagonist
Legend
40. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Limerick
Holistic Scoring
Stanza
41. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Heroic couplet
Imagery
Oxymoron
Protagonist
42. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Pragmatics
Moral
Couplet
Novel
43. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Camera view
Diction
Hubris
44. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Jargon (diction)
Haiku
Western
Dialect
45. 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
Historical fiction
Free verse
Fairy Tale
Stanza
46. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Plot
Setting
Preposition
First Person
47. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Romance
Parody
Denouement
48. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Antagonist
Paradox
Syntax
Oxymoron
49. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Frame tale
Symbol
Jargon (diction)
Clause
50. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Holistic Scoring
Biography
Cliche
Horror