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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. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
End rhyme
Hubris
Genre
Hyperbole
2. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Anecdote
Short story
Participle
Preposition
3. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Euphemism
Historical fiction
Dialect
Cliche
4. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Morphology
Plot
Omniscient
Jargon (diction)
5. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Folktale
Satire
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Jargon
6. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Trochaic (foot)
Genre
Character
7. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch
Folktale
Imagery
Romance
Dialect (diction)
8. 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
Irony
Rhythm
Simile
9. ' U
Symbol
Trochaic (foot)
Conflict
Verse
10. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect
Elegy
Folktale
Dialect (diction)
11. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Fantasy
End rhyme
verbal irony
Hubris
12. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Camera view
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Moral
13. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Canto
Allegory
Fairy Tale
Double speak
14. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Document (letter - diary - journal)
End rhyme
Haiku
Verse
15. U '
Holistic Scoring
Apostrophe
Iambic (foot)
Fable
16. 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.
Slang (diction)
Couplet
Mystery
Clause
17. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Article
Fairy Tale
Camera view
18. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
First Person
Tragedy
Euphemism
Plot
19. 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
Alliteration
Personification
Euphemism
Dialect
20. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Dialect
Slang (diction)
Article
21. 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
Fable
Fairy Tale
Denotation
Noun
22. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Historical fiction
Mystery
Transcendentalism
23. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Denotation
Paradox
Flashback
Allusion
24. Persuasive writing.
Phrase
Rhetoric
Iambic (foot)
Plot
25. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Folktale
dramatic irony
Phonology
26. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Rhythm
Novella
Malapropism
Protagonist
27. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Internal rhyme
Setting
Ballad
Simile
28. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Jargon (diction)
Transcendentalism
Clause
Vulgarity
29. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Meter
Heroic couplet
Blank verse
Paradox
30. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Denotation
Diction
Couplet
31. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Mood
Allegory
Phrase
32. 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.
Hyperbole
Paradox
Phonetics
Analogy
33. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Archaic (diction)
Romance
Allusion
Enjambment
34. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Horror
Science fiction
Dialect
35. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.
Paradox
Euphemism
Preposition
End rhyme
36. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
Essay
Narrative Point of View
37. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Biography
Novella
situation irony
38. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
Archaic (diction)
Haiku
Omniscient
39. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Canto
Malapropism
Connosance
Ballad
40. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Verse
Fairy Tale
Anapestic Meter
Denotation
41. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Analogy
Tragedy
Semantics
Apostrophe
42. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Personification
Trochaic (foot)
Romance
Novella
43. 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.
Pronoun
Refrain
Essay
Pragmatics
44. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Rhythm
Epic
First Person
Conjunction
45. 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.
Narrative Point of View
Epic
Conjunction
Allegory
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.
Adjective
Science fiction
Meter
Metaphor
47. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Allegory
etymology
Phonetics
Camera view
48. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Trochaic (foot)
Fairy Tale
Syntax
49. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Ambiguity
Onomatopoeia
Flashback
Rhetoric
50. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Analogy
Limited omniscient
Alliteration
Character