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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. U U '
Plot
Stanza
Anapestic
Preposition
2. 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
Pragmatics
Genre
Sonnet
Mystery
3. The telling of a story.
4 sentence types
Narration
Aphorism
Allusion
4. 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.
Haiku
Article
Irony
Double speak
5. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Hyperbole
Pragmatics
Ballad
6. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Novel
Anapestic
Narration
7. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
End rhyme
Meter
Ballad
Personification
8. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Ballad
Satire
Allegory
Trochaic (foot)
9. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Onomatopoeia
Autobiography
Conflict
Rhythm
10. 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
Cliche
Folktale
Double speak
End rhyme
11. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Dialect
Rhetoric
Free verse
12. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Satire
Mystery
Style
Jargon (diction)
13. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Characterization
Third Person
Vulgarity
Short story
14. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Novella
Historical fiction
Novel
Moral
15. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Science fiction
Slang (diction)
Setting
Phonetics
16. ' U
Horror
Clause
Trochaic (foot)
Parody
17. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Allusion
Characterization
Character
Colloquialisms (diction)
18. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Camera view
Ballad
Apostrophe
19. The perspective from which a story is told.
Character
Frame tale
Morphology
Point of View
20. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Omniscient
Jargon (diction)
Foreshadowing
Romance
21. 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
Euphemism
Essay
Western
22. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Tone
Noun
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
23. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Myth
Internal rhyme
Genre
Slang (diction)
24. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Mystery
Short story
Allusion
Personification
25. 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.
Conjunction
Iambic (foot)
Foreshadowing
Frame tale
26. The study of the structure of words.
Refrain
Morphology
Point of View
Meter
27. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Mystery
situation irony
Semantics
Anecdote
28. 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.'
Elegy
Narration
Malapropism
Tragedy
29. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
4 sentence types
dramatic irony
Clause
Style
30. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Foot
Moral
Malapropism
Phonetics
31. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Syntax
Ballad
Archaic (diction)
Phonology
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.
Adverb
Ballad
Mood
Dialect
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Allegory
Malapropism
Preposition
34. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Clause
Oxymoron
Foreshadowing
Internal rhyme
35. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Western
Existentialism
Preposition
36. 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.
Genre
Fable
Mood
Folktale
37. 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.
Imagery
Stanza
Flashback
Ambiguity
38. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Fairy Tale
Jargon (diction)
Double speak
Apostrophe
39. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Jargon
Conjunction
Personification
situation irony
40. 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.
Clause
Character
Pronoun
Blank verse
41. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Anapestic Meter
Epic
Trochaic (foot)
42. The main character or hero of a written work.
Setting
Ballad
Protagonist
Fairy Tale
43. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Limerick
Meter
Blank verse
Jargon (diction)
44. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
End rhyme
Hyperbole
Science fiction
Rhythm
45. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Omniscient
Phonetics
Jargon (diction)
Holistic Scoring
46. The study of the orgin of words
Morphology
etymology
Anapestic Meter
Anapestic
47. 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.
Parody
Mystery
Dialect
Vulgarity
48. 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
Paradox
Autobiography
Denotation
Enjambment
49. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Frame tale
Malapropism
Diction
50. 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
Profanity (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Symbol