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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. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Refrain
Parody
Anapestic Meter
2. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Simile
Foreshadowing
Imagery
Setting
3. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Horror
Character
Hubris
Aphorism
4. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Antagonist
Antagonist
Clause
Semantics
5. The perspective from which a story is told.
Archaic (diction)
Protagonist
Pragmatics
Point of View
6. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Conjunction
Blank verse
Dialect (diction)
7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Symbol
Heroic couplet
Alliteration
8. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Aphorism
Adverb
Allusion
Hyperbole
9. 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.
Aphorism
Denouement
Preposition
Anapestic Meter
10. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.
Assonance
Irony
Holistic Scoring
Oxymoron
11. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Trochaic (foot)
Malapropism
situation irony
Narration
12. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Narrative Point of View
Jargon (diction)
situation irony
Caesura
13. The telling of a story.
Narration
Foreshadowing
Connosance
Anapestic
14. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Transcendentalism
Narrative Point of View
Sonnet
Preposition
15. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Third Person
Antagonist
Slang (diction)
Archaic (diction)
16. 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
Omniscient
Sonnet
Euphemism
Mood
17. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Dactylic
Ambiguity
Conjunction
Hubris
18. The study of the structure of sentences.
Heroic couplet
Dialect
Slang (diction)
Syntax
19. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Antagonist
Pragmatics
Transcendentalism
Blank verse
20. 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
Narrative Point of View
Anecdote
Caesura
Legend
21. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Folktale
Hyperbole
Dialect
Short story
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.
Denotation
Existentialism
Hyperbole
Character
23. 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
Western
Voice
Satire
Frame tale
24. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Rhythm
Phrase
Verb
Enjambment
25. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses
Limited omniscient
Anapestic
Paradox
Sonnet
26. The study of the orgin of words
Denotation
Document (letter - diary - journal)
etymology
Anecdote
27. 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.
Refrain
Frame tale
Horror
Free verse
28. A person or being in a narrative
Hubris
Character
Setting
Free verse
29. 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.
Science fiction
End rhyme
Canto
situation irony
30. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Dialect
Myth
Noun
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.
Apostrophe
Profanity (diction)
Antagonist
Mystery
32. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Free verse
Antagonist
Adverb
Parody
33. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
4 sentence types
Fairy Tale
Myth
34. 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.
Setting
Assonance
Fable
Rhythm
35. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Romance
Lyric
Paradox
36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Aphorism
Lyric
Conflict
End rhyme
37. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Cliche
Oxymoron
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Apostrophe
38. 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.
Connotation
Pronoun
Style
Adjective
39. 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.
Jargon
Adverb
Slang (diction)
Voice
40. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Autobiography
Existentialism
Paradox
41. ' U U
Dactylic
Folktale
Simile
dramatic irony
42. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch
Connosance
Folktale
Limited omniscient
verbal irony
43. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Slang (diction)
Novel
Assonance
Simile
44. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Semantics
Character
Pronoun
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
Trochaic (foot)
Simile
Refrain
Document (letter - diary - journal)
46. 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
Connosance
Antagonist
Foot
Rhythm
47. ' U
Alliteration
Caesura
Trochaic (foot)
Semantics
48. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Rhythm
Setting
Denouement
Rhetoric
49. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Vulgarity
Diction
Alliteration
Blank verse
50. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Limited omniscient
Cliche
Holistic Scoring
Conflict