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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. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Slang (diction)
Antagonist
Science fiction
Plot
2. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Sonnet
Essay
Mystery
Lyric
3. 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.
Historical fiction
Irony
Paradox
Phrase
4. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Satire
Analogy
Parody
Hyperbole
5. The perspective from which a story is told.
Phonetics
Point of View
Conjunction
Free verse
6. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Imagery
Conjunction
Limited omniscient
Omniscient
7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Diction
Internal rhyme
Lyric
Camera view
8. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Irony
Dialect
Lyric
Onomatopoeia
9. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Character
Onomatopoeia
Irony
Dactylic
10. The study of the meaning in language.
Slang (diction)
Essay
Ambiguity
Semantics
11. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Hyperbole
Analogy
Profanity (diction)
dramatic irony
12. ' U U
Limited omniscient
Enjambment
Dactylic
Diction
13. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Profanity (diction)
End rhyme
Simile
Verb
14. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Third Person
Symbol
Phrase
15. 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
Hubris
Preposition
Autobiography
Fantasy
16. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Lyric
Limited omniscient
Participle
17. 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
Fable
Preposition
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Legend
18. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Internal rhyme
Iambic (foot)
Meter
Refrain
19. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Morphology
Limited omniscient
Pronoun
Phrase
20. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Canto
Trochaic (foot)
Adverb
Denotation
21. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Characterization
Blank verse
Fairy Tale
Transcendentalism
22. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Omniscient
Narrative Point of View
Novel
Denouement
23. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Pronoun
Verb
Narrative Point of View
Connosance
24. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Fairy Tale
Syntax
Historical fiction
Allegory
25. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Verb
Camera view
Science fiction
Phonetics
26. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Rhythm
Flashback
Diction
Caesura
27. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Profanity (diction)
Setting
Horror
28. 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
Western
Romance
Mystery
Frame tale
29. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Morphology
situation irony
Romance
First Person
30. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Voice
Rhythm
Setting
31. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Participle
Dialect (diction)
Setting
Euphemism
32. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Internal rhyme
Malapropism
Hyperbole
Mood
33. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Folktale
Anecdote
Participle
Clause
34. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Folktale
Historical fiction
Conflict
4 sentence types
35. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Horror
Third Person
Simile
Slang (diction)
36. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
situation irony
Point of View
etymology
Personification
37. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Point of View
Article
Phonology
Iambic (foot)
38. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Participle
Denouement
Trochaic (foot)
Article
39. A person or being in a narrative
Personification
Apostrophe
Horror
Character
40. The main section of a long poem.
Genre
Canto
Western
Ballad
41. ' U
Assonance
Genre
Couplet
Trochaic (foot)
42. The telling of a story.
Narration
Pragmatics
Lyric
Moral
43. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Plot
Heroic couplet
Novella
Rhythm
44. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
verbal irony
Verse
Dialect
45. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Holistic Scoring
Short story
Euphemism
Participle
46. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Camera view
Clause
Myth
47. The study of the orgin of words
Assonance
End rhyme
Legend
etymology
48. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Hubris
Dialect (diction)
Horror
Antagonist
49. 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.
Syntax
Holistic Scoring
Limerick
Dialect
50. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Setting
Double speak
Allusion
Oxymoron