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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 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
Dactylic
Sonnet
Euphemism
Irony
2. U '
Pronoun
Rhetoric
Iambic (foot)
Fantasy
3. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Anecdote
Third Person
Parody
4. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Antagonist
Participle
Dialect
Verse
5. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Setting
Novella
Phonetics
Allegory
6. The study of the structure of sentences.
Article
Flashback
Canto
Syntax
7. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Symbol
Euphemism
Flashback
8. 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.
Science fiction
Lyric
Allegory
Adverb
9. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Denotation
Assonance
Ballad
10. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Verse
Romance
Simile
Colloquialisms (diction)
11. 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
Moral
Romance
Short story
Tone
12. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Lyric
Rhetoric
Heroic couplet
Hubris
13. 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 -
Transcendentalism
Hyperbole
Historical fiction
Euphemism
14. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Verse
dramatic irony
Fable
15. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
verbal irony
Epic
Repetition
Euphemism
16. 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.
Syntax
Existentialism
Point of View
Legend
17. 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
Dialect (diction)
Fantasy
Malapropism
Parody
18. 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
Allegory
Dialect
Jargon (diction)
19. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Narrative Point of View
Omniscient
Denouement
Romance
20. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Limerick
Moral
Omniscient
Profanity (diction)
21. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Malapropism
Profanity (diction)
Stanza
22. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Short story
Refrain
Personification
23. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Point of View
Voice
Autobiography
Rhythm
24. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Connotation
Phrase
Clause
Historical fiction
25. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Imagery
First Person
Assonance
26. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Third Person
Genre
Dialect (diction)
Connotation
27. 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
Hubris
Symbol
Enjambment
Pronoun
28. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Antagonist
Legend
Adverb
4 sentence types
29. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Irony
Free verse
Rhythm
etymology
30. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Short story
Elegy
End rhyme
Limited omniscient
31. A story about a person's life written by another person.
verbal irony
Metaphor
Repetition
Biography
32. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Internal rhyme
Plot
Phrase
Diction
33. 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
Trochaic (foot)
Legend
Vulgarity
Anapestic Meter
34. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Myth
Oxymoron
Semantics
Biography
35. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Malapropism
Sonnet
Foreshadowing
Simile
36. The telling of a story.
Profanity (diction)
Narration
Limited omniscient
Personification
37. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Haiku
Narration
Foot
Diction
38. 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.
Science fiction
Hyperbole
Symbol
Connosance
39. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Satire
Point of View
Narrative Point of View
Setting
40. Persuasive writing.
Holistic Scoring
Moral
situation irony
Rhetoric
41. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Folktale
First Person
Dialect
42. 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
Transcendentalism
Frame tale
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
43. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Connotation
Conflict
Limerick
Ambiguity
44. 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 .
Western
Antagonist
Caesura
Tragedy
45. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Semantics
Syntax
Dialect
Morphology
46. 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.
Irony
Conjunction
Historical fiction
Verb
47. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Imagery
Anapestic
Couplet
Rhetoric
48. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Setting
Antagonist
Double speak
Rhetoric
49. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Voice
Novel
Phrase
Allegory
50. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Hubris
Assonance
Repetition
Irony