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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Assonance
Legend
Tragedy
Narrative Point of View
2. 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.
Meter
Mood
Western
Pronoun
3. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Antagonist
Anapestic
Foreshadowing
Anecdote
4. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
situation irony
Blank verse
Refrain
Imagery
5. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Irony
Transcendentalism
Parody
Mood
6. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Characterization
Fairy Tale
Holistic Scoring
7. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Ambiguity
Apostrophe
Essay
Setting
8. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Character
Anapestic
Transcendentalism
9. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Noun
Antagonist
Satire
Limerick
10. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Imagery
Clause
Internal rhyme
Personification
11. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Mood
Short story
Free verse
Dialect
12. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Jargon
Connotation
Myth
Assonance
13. 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
Essay
Sonnet
Elegy
Satire
14. 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
Canto
Short story
Connotation
Camera view
15. 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
Pragmatics
Frame tale
Adverb
Repetition
16. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Repetition
Free verse
Conflict
Anapestic Meter
17. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Myth
Plot
Colloquialisms (diction)
Dialect
18. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Character
Epic
Jargon
Mystery
19. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Pronoun
Morphology
Horror
20. 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
Internal rhyme
Preposition
Rhythm
Enjambment
21. The study of the structure of sentences.
Semantics
Clause
Syntax
Parody
22. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Flashback
Couplet
Article
Heroic couplet
23. 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.
Anecdote
Existentialism
Connosance
Iambic (foot)
24. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Jargon
Symbol
Frame tale
25. 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.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Tragedy
Elegy
situation irony
26. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Narration
Genre
Internal rhyme
27. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Foreshadowing
Simile
Euphemism
Blank verse
28. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Narration
Alliteration
Double speak
Antagonist
29. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Clause
Vulgarity
Haiku
30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Simile
Blank verse
Moral
Trochaic (foot)
31. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath
Epic
Western
First Person
Jargon (diction)
32. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t
Participle
Rhythm
Foreshadowing
Foot
33. The main section of a long poem.
Conflict
Euphemism
Canto
Narration
34. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Foot
Dactylic
Adverb
Symbol
35. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Foot
Couplet
Euphemism
Dactylic
36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Satire
Omniscient
Oxymoron
Ambiguity
37. 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.
Euphemism
Diction
Antagonist
Horror
38. 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
Phonology
Transcendentalism
Meter
Legend
39. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Meter
Trochaic (foot)
Profanity (diction)
Denouement
40. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Setting
Transcendentalism
Anapestic
Elegy
41. 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
Autobiography
Euphemism
Heroic couplet
Diction
42. 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
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Fantasy
Lyric
Moral
43. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Dialect (diction)
Profanity (diction)
etymology
Existentialism
44. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Parody
Character
Jargon
Historical fiction
45. The study of the orgin of words
Allusion
etymology
Trochaic (foot)
Ambiguity
46. 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
Flashback
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Fairy Tale
47. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Cliche
Euphemism
Parody
Canto
48. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Simile
Flashback
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Third Person
49. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Colloquialisms (diction)
Free verse
Cliche
Metaphor
50. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Verse
Epic
Fantasy
Rhythm