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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 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
Allusion
Rhythm
Simile
Fantasy
2. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Existentialism
Fairy Tale
Frame tale
3. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Anapestic
Horror
dramatic irony
Parody
4. 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.
Flashback
Moral
Science fiction
Conjunction
5. The perspective from which a story is told.
Flashback
Point of View
situation irony
Novel
6. 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
Enjambment
Plot
Moral
Noun
7. 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
Vulgarity
Epic
Holistic Scoring
Romance
8. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Double speak
Verse
Moral
Third Person
9. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Autobiography
Connosance
Dialect
10. 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.
Verse
Meter
Horror
Free verse
11. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Narration
Diction
Plot
Simile
12. 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
Voice
Connotation
Essay
Participle
13. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Couplet
Anapestic Meter
Essay
Narrative Point of View
14. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Euphemism
Profanity (diction)
Cliche
Rhythm
15. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Caesura
Novella
Aphorism
Anapestic
16. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Ambiguity
Narration
Couplet
Limerick
17. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Characterization
Short story
Vulgarity
18. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Archaic (diction)
Repetition
Legend
Denotation
19. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Free verse
End rhyme
Onomatopoeia
20. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Camera view
Denotation
Archaic (diction)
21. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Slang (diction)
Omniscient
Phonology
22. 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
Foot
Camera view
Paradox
Short story
23. U U '
Colloquialisms (diction)
Syntax
Iambic (foot)
Anapestic
24. 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.
Antagonist
Enjambment
Holistic Scoring
Myth
25. The study of the structure of sentences.
Assonance
verbal irony
Syntax
Couplet
26. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Foreshadowing
Myth
Anapestic
27. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Foot
Free verse
Setting
Foreshadowing
28. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Symbol
Blank verse
Metaphor
Romance
29. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Denouement
Characterization
Rhythm
Irony
30. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo
Western
Archaic (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Existentialism
31. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Participle
Jargon
Elegy
Anecdote
32. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Mystery
Enjambment
Colloquialisms (diction)
Onomatopoeia
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Cliche
Jargon (diction)
Limited omniscient
34. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
etymology
Noun
Essay
Phrase
35. 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
Malapropism
Hyperbole
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Transcendentalism
36. 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
situation irony
Apostrophe
Phonology
Internal rhyme
37. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
dramatic irony
Euphemism
Euphemism
38. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Foreshadowing
Clause
Adverb
Imagery
39. The writer says one thing and means another
Ballad
Repetition
verbal irony
Colloquialisms (diction)
40. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Irony
Biography
Noun
Slang (diction)
41. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Oxymoron
Connotation
4 sentence types
Characterization
42. 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.
Tone
Holistic Scoring
Limerick
Short story
43. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Irony
Symbol
Morphology
Refrain
44. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Irony
Novel
Fairy Tale
45. ' U
Short story
verbal irony
Trochaic (foot)
Verb
46. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Ambiguity
Rhythm
Personification
Fable
47. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Flashback
Tragedy
Novella
Sonnet
48. 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
Imagery
Fairy Tale
Assonance
Jargon
49. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Legend
Personification
Foreshadowing
Tone
50. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
etymology
Vulgarity
Iambic (foot)
Legend