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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 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
Couplet
Phonology
Essay
Analogy
2. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Personification
Camera view
Biography
Heroic couplet
3. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Enjambment
Dialect
Repetition
Narrative Point of View
4. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
Adjective
Malapropism
Narrative Point of View
Autobiography
5. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Lyric
Imagery
Mood
Jargon
6. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Mood
Imagery
Biography
7. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Apostrophe
Semantics
Ballad
8. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Foreshadowing
Omniscient
Enjambment
Noun
9. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Anapestic Meter
Novella
Pronoun
Limerick
10. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Western
Noun
Essay
11. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Elegy
Jargon (diction)
Novel
12. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Iambic (foot)
Moral
Clause
Noun
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.
Myth
Jargon
Fairy Tale
Historical fiction
14. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Holistic Scoring
Clause
Hyperbole
Slang (diction)
15. The writer says one thing and means another
Omniscient
Adverb
Phonetics
verbal irony
16. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Semantics
Biography
Phonetics
17. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Denouement
Anapestic
Voice
18. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Tragedy
Point of View
Adverb
19. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Limited omniscient
situation irony
Satire
Elegy
20. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Euphemism
Morphology
Tragedy
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
Rhythm
Fairy Tale
Mood
Stanza
22. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Mystery
Pragmatics
Phonetics
Assonance
23. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Character
Jargon (diction)
Tone
Alliteration
24. 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
Foot
Paradox
Romance
Epic
25. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Western
Verse
Frame tale
Science fiction
26. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Jargon (diction)
Phonetics
Colloquialisms (diction)
27. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Dactylic
Existentialism
Blank verse
28. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Antagonist
Meter
Tone
Archaic (diction)
29. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Apostrophe
Point of View
Personification
Metaphor
30. 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 .
Pronoun
Article
Phonetics
Caesura
31. 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.
Slang (diction)
Analogy
Irony
Limerick
32. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Dialect
Metaphor
Parody
33. 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.
Haiku
Fantasy
Western
Plot
34. The time and place in which a story occurs.
dramatic irony
Setting
Anecdote
Fantasy
35. 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
Limited omniscient
Novella
Stanza
36. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Slang (diction)
Limerick
Epic
Double speak
37. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Fable
Ballad
Western
Parody
38. 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
Point of View
Existentialism
Euphemism
Fairy Tale
39. Persuasive writing.
Phrase
Personification
Rhetoric
Denotation
40. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Style
Sonnet
Dialect
41. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Point of View
Flashback
Conjunction
Limited omniscient
42. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Short story
Pragmatics
Dialect (diction)
Double speak
43. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Semantics
Fable
Moral
Pronoun
44. ' U
Tone
Lyric
Mood
Trochaic (foot)
45. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Horror
Narrative Point of View
Heroic couplet
46. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Folktale
Euphemism
Adverb
47. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Jargon (diction)
Ambiguity
Biography
Limited omniscient
48. ' U U
Fable
Syntax
Jargon
Dactylic
49. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Jargon (diction)
Cliche
Limited omniscient
50. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Vulgarity
Haiku
Personification
4 sentence types