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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. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
End rhyme
Limerick
Preposition
2. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Euphemism
Imagery
Participle
Cliche
3. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Iambic (foot)
Hyperbole
Mood
Fantasy
4. 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.
Preposition
Diction
Essay
Denouement
5. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Satire
6. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Clause
Phonology
Foreshadowing
etymology
7. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
End rhyme
Jargon (diction)
Oxymoron
Pragmatics
8. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Stanza
Apostrophe
Horror
9. 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.
Essay
Adverb
Plot
Anecdote
10. A person or being in a narrative
Setting
Profanity (diction)
Character
Internal rhyme
11. The study of the meaning in language.
Novel
Moral
Semantics
Jargon
12. U U '
Frame tale
Repetition
Conflict
Anapestic
13. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
End rhyme
Novel
14. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Haiku
Personification
Adjective
Verse
15. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Existentialism
Noun
Participle
Assonance
16. 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
Horror
Hyperbole
Frame tale
Blank verse
17. 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
dramatic irony
Apostrophe
Cliche
Alliteration
18. 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
Heroic couplet
Euphemism
Ambiguity
19. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Dialect
Symbol
Setting
Adjective
20. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Legend
Irony
Semantics
Alliteration
21. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
First Person
Epic
Verse
22. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Anecdote
Novella
Article
Antagonist
23. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Antagonist
Anecdote
Conflict
Dactylic
24. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Free verse
Jargon
Holistic Scoring
25. 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.
Enjambment
First Person
Science fiction
Symbol
26. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Foot
First Person
27. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Phonology
Romance
Oxymoron
Couplet
28. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.
Syntax
Trochaic (foot)
Essay
Existentialism
29. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Aphorism
Characterization
Slang (diction)
Verse
30. 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.
Legend
Historical fiction
Fable
Point of View
31. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Euphemism
Iambic (foot)
Clause
Jargon
32. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Tragedy
Phonology
Phrase
33. The study of the orgin of words
Novella
Novel
etymology
Conjunction
34. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
verbal irony
etymology
Conflict
Dialect
35. Persuasive writing.
Dialect
Phrase
Rhetoric
Horror
36. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Imagery
Connotation
Canto
37. 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
Plot
Romance
Elegy
Participle
38. 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
Allusion
Fairy Tale
Hyperbole
Denouement
39. 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.
Pronoun
Aphorism
Mystery
Point of View
40. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Fable
Ambiguity
Satire
41. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Morphology
Pragmatics
Article
42. 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.
End rhyme
Stanza
Pronoun
Denotation
43. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Legend
Essay
etymology
Flashback
44. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Article
Onomatopoeia
Simile
Dactylic
45. 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
Euphemism
Caesura
Myth
Pronoun
46. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Protagonist
Dialect
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Aphorism
47. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
4 sentence types
Jargon (diction)
Flashback
48. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Narrative Point of View
Oxymoron
Participle
Genre
49. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Myth
Flashback
Fantasy
Parody
50. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Trochaic (foot)
Moral
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Haiku