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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 study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Fairy Tale
Couplet
Refrain
Phonetics
2. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Myth
Biography
verbal irony
Preposition
3. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Archaic (diction)
Conflict
Onomatopoeia
Setting
4. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Phonology
Euphemism
Biography
5. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
etymology
Simile
Anapestic Meter
Denouement
6. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Syntax
Dialect
Setting
7. The writer says one thing and means another
Refrain
Blank verse
verbal irony
Satire
8. 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.
Moral
Limerick
Transcendentalism
Novel
9. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Phonetics
Romance
Caesura
Colloquialisms (diction)
10. 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.
Aphorism
Vulgarity
Existentialism
Omniscient
11. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Denotation
Blank verse
Narrative Point of View
12. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Legend
Parody
Repetition
Analogy
13. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Rhythm
Adjective
Irony
Connosance
14. U U '
Anapestic
Dialect
Point of View
Verse
15. 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
Connosance
Third Person
Ambiguity
Enjambment
16. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
Double speak
Verb
17. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Folktale
Semantics
Dialect
Dialect (diction)
18. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Clause
situation irony
Limited omniscient
Transcendentalism
19. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.
Myth
Assonance
Setting
Genre
20. 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.
Voice
Holistic Scoring
Personification
Legend
21. 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.
Personification
Adverb
Pronoun
Allegory
22. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Narrative Point of View
Adjective
Paradox
Third Person
23. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Simile
End rhyme
Foreshadowing
Mood
24. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Verb
Couplet
Paradox
Foreshadowing
25. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Dactylic
Limerick
Assonance
Euphemism
26. 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.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Narration
Fable
Verse
27. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Personification
Rhythm
Dialect
Genre
28. 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 .
Clause
Caesura
Anecdote
Irony
29. 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
Elegy
Apostrophe
Satire
30. U '
Characterization
Slang (diction)
Protagonist
Iambic (foot)
31. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
dramatic irony
Canto
Setting
32. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Assonance
Repetition
Denouement
Essay
33. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Protagonist
Tragedy
Haiku
34. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Aphorism
Jargon (diction)
4 sentence types
Oxymoron
35. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Setting
Conjunction
Verb
Genre
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
Oxymoron
Conflict
Apostrophe
Fairy Tale
37. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Character
etymology
Slang (diction)
Cliche
38. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Narrative Point of View
Characterization
Verse
Satire
39. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
End rhyme
Alliteration
Rhetoric
Metaphor
40. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Noun
Essay
Double speak
41. 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
Haiku
Semantics
Short story
Profanity (diction)
42. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Conjunction
Foreshadowing
Irony
Pragmatics
43. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Third Person
Verse
Ambiguity
Biography
44. 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
Internal rhyme
4 sentence types
Free verse
45. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Hyperbole
Malapropism
Paradox
Novel
46. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
dramatic irony
Adjective
Short story
47. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Epic
Personification
Slang (diction)
48. 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.
Article
Repetition
Myth
Hyperbole
49. 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
etymology
Dialect
Setting
50. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Antagonist
Genre
Existentialism
Paradox