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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. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Apostrophe
Free verse
End rhyme
Fantasy
2. 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.
Horror
Colloquialisms (diction)
Camera view
Canto
3. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Onomatopoeia
Dactylic
Style
Denotation
4. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Enjambment
Morphology
Connosance
5. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Voice
Diction
Biography
Heroic couplet
6. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Epic
Adverb
Euphemism
Onomatopoeia
7. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Anecdote
Short story
Dialect (diction)
8. The writer says one thing and means another
Participle
verbal irony
Enjambment
Dactylic
9. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Symbol
Sonnet
Anapestic Meter
Document (letter - diary - journal)
10. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Third Person
Euphemism
Metaphor
Novella
11. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Essay
Phrase
Satire
Caesura
12. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Imagery
Verb
Pragmatics
Character
13. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Hyperbole
Canto
Oxymoron
14. ' U
Archaic (diction)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Trochaic (foot)
Holistic Scoring
15. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Heroic couplet
Foreshadowing
Profanity (diction)
Western
16. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Antagonist
Participle
Verse
Connotation
17. 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.
Legend
Trochaic (foot)
Connotation
Preposition
18. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Narration
Connosance
Jargon
19. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Clause
Denotation
Stanza
Dialect
20. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Enjambment
Short story
Moral
Noun
21. 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
Biography
Ambiguity
Essay
Cliche
22. 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.
Hubris
Ballad
Hyperbole
Euphemism
23. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Frame tale
Third Person
Personification
Essay
24. 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.
Preposition
Narrative Point of View
etymology
Stanza
25. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Science fiction
Jargon (diction)
Aphorism
Setting
26. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Style
Article
Cliche
Colloquialisms (diction)
27. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Connotation
Short story
Colloquialisms (diction)
Personification
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
Romance
Adjective
Personification
Myth
29. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Conflict
Jargon
Haiku
Point of View
30. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Stanza
Voice
Setting
Paradox
31. 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.
Heroic couplet
Slang (diction)
Mystery
Adjective
32. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Iambic (foot)
Adjective
Biography
Denouement
33. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Narrative Point of View
Point of View
Holistic Scoring
34. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Short story
Preposition
Assonance
Connotation
35. 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
Plot
Short story
Diction
Preposition
36. The telling of a story.
Dialect (diction)
Foreshadowing
Narration
Elegy
37. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Rhetoric
Connosance
Malapropism
Alliteration
38. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Vulgarity
Oxymoron
Elegy
4 sentence types
39. 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.
Allegory
Fairy Tale
Anapestic Meter
Conjunction
40. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Free verse
dramatic irony
Phonology
Anapestic Meter
41. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Morphology
Blank verse
Lyric
Hubris
42. 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.
Euphemism
Epic
Camera view
Alliteration
43. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Tragedy
Verb
Characterization
44. The main character or hero of a written work.
Jargon
Irony
Aphorism
Protagonist
45. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Haiku
Refrain
dramatic irony
46. 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 .
Caesura
Lyric
Assonance
Adjective
47. 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
Setting
Foot
Euphemism
Fairy Tale
48. 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.
Fable
Science fiction
Onomatopoeia
Point of View
49. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Couplet
Fable
Characterization
Tragedy
50. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Plot
Analogy
Foot
Refrain