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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.
Free verse
Horror
Symbol
Internal rhyme
2. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Autobiography
Denouement
Epic
Imagery
3. 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.
Repetition
Morphology
Fable
Malapropism
4. 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.
Narration
Stanza
Apostrophe
Caesura
5. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Preposition
Point of View
Colloquialisms (diction)
Limited omniscient
6. 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
Anapestic
verbal irony
Sonnet
Narrative Point of View
7. 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
Antagonist
Novel
Mood
Legend
8. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Malapropism
Denouement
Parody
Internal rhyme
9. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Omniscient
Verb
Noun
10. 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 .
Holistic Scoring
Ambiguity
Essay
Caesura
11. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Blank verse
Horror
Voice
Antagonist
12. 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
Ambiguity
Fairy Tale
Stanza
Allegory
13. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Epic
Euphemism
Paradox
Meter
14. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Iambic (foot)
Setting
Article
Historical fiction
15. U '
Allegory
Narration
Iambic (foot)
Antagonist
16. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Phonology
Dialect (diction)
Allegory
Malapropism
17. The study of the structure of words.
Slang (diction)
Holistic Scoring
Paradox
Morphology
18. 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
Aphorism
Setting
Fable
Short story
19. 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
Jargon (diction)
Tragedy
Frame tale
Allusion
20. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Western
Connotation
Tragedy
21. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Fable
Malapropism
Autobiography
Epic
22. 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.
Hubris
Metaphor
Essay
Myth
23. 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.
Phrase
Characterization
Haiku
Antagonist
24. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Clause
Flashback
Apostrophe
25. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Morphology
Article
Couplet
Character
26. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Verb
Phonology
Characterization
27. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
End rhyme
Historical fiction
Double speak
Rhythm
28. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Free verse
Essay
Biography
29. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Short story
Stanza
Setting
Epic
30. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Repetition
Caesura
Assonance
Western
31. The telling of a story.
Anapestic Meter
Narration
Epic
Denotation
32. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
First Person
Style
Moral
Parody
33. 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.
Adverb
Holistic Scoring
Limerick
Point of View
34. 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
Clause
Anapestic Meter
Protagonist
Fantasy
35. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Antagonist
Euphemism
4 sentence types
Romance
36. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
etymology
Cliche
Limerick
Character
37. The main character or hero of a written work.
Frame tale
Protagonist
Rhetoric
Syntax
38. 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.
Epic
Mystery
Canto
Aphorism
39. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Euphemism
Repetition
Phonology
Assonance
40. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Connosance
Ballad
Epic
Narrative Point of View
41. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Tragedy
Canto
situation irony
Apostrophe
42. A person or being in a narrative
Dactylic
Free verse
Character
End rhyme
43. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Limited omniscient
Foreshadowing
Ballad
dramatic irony
44. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
First Person
Free verse
Tone
Diction
45. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Symbol
Assonance
Antagonist
Euphemism
46. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Moral
Characterization
Free verse
Setting
47. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Hubris
Rhetoric
Narration
48. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Adverb
Alliteration
Jargon (diction)
Enjambment
49. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Mood
Free verse
Semantics
50. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Analogy
Tone
Denotation
Romance