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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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2. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






3. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






4. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






5. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






6. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






11. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






12. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






13. 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.






14. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






15. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






16. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






17. 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






18. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






19. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






20. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






21. 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.'






22. 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






23. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






24. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






25. A wise saying - usually short and written.






26. 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.






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






28. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






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






30. 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






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






32. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






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






35. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






36. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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.






38. 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.






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40. The telling of a story.






41. A contradictory statement that makes sense






42. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






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






44. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






45. 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






46. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






47. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






48. The study of the structure of words.






49. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






50. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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