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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. U U '
Profanity (diction)
Anapestic
Noun
Clause
2. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Analogy
Phonetics
Foreshadowing
Refrain
3. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Enjambment
Voice
Narrative Point of View
Repetition
4. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Tone
Internal rhyme
Noun
Antagonist
5. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Conjunction
Semantics
Point of View
6. 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.
Couplet
Narrative Point of View
Adjective
Phrase
7. 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
Haiku
Frame tale
Rhythm
Satire
8. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Biography
Morphology
Conflict
Flashback
9. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Blank verse
Characterization
Conjunction
Double speak
10. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Symbol
Slang (diction)
Jargon (diction)
Denouement
11. ' U
Epic
Legend
Sonnet
Trochaic (foot)
12. The main character or hero of a written work.
Phonetics
Holistic Scoring
Protagonist
Double speak
13. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
etymology
Symbol
Trochaic (foot)
14. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Allegory
Analogy
Foot
Style
15. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Flashback
Jargon
Simile
16. The study of the meaning in language.
Tone
Style
Semantics
Verb
17. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Protagonist
Dialect (diction)
Novella
Connosance
18. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Foreshadowing
Horror
End rhyme
Jargon
19. The perspective from which a story is told.
Personification
Point of View
Essay
Internal rhyme
20. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Voice
Imagery
Heroic couplet
Ballad
21. 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.
Stanza
Novel
Point of View
Rhythm
22. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Repetition
Allusion
Rhetoric
Myth
23. 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
Blank verse
Connosance
Romance
Folktale
24. 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
Biography
Archaic (diction)
Western
Verse
25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Caesura
End rhyme
Clause
Profanity (diction)
26. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Horror
Epic
Heroic couplet
situation irony
27. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath
Lyric
Verse
Epic
Oxymoron
28. The study of the structure of sentences.
verbal irony
Jargon (diction)
Syntax
First Person
29. 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.
Lyric
Epic
Limerick
Allusion
30. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Horror
Oxymoron
Profanity (diction)
Setting
31. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Horror
Malapropism
Syntax
32. 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.
Irony
Semantics
Apostrophe
Participle
33. 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.
Existentialism
Plot
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Noun
34. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Vulgarity
Plot
Tone
Phonetics
35. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Protagonist
Phonology
Simile
Style
36. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Syntax
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
37. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Novella
Paradox
Free verse
Clause
38. A person or being in a narrative
Myth
Oxymoron
Couplet
Character
39. 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
Allusion
Fairy Tale
Anapestic
Folktale
40. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Conflict
Jargon (diction)
Preposition
Imagery
41. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Limerick
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
Double speak
42. 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
Rhetoric
First Person
Omniscient
Sonnet
43. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Style
Rhetoric
Setting
44. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Antagonist
Camera view
Semantics
Internal rhyme
45. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Protagonist
Third Person
Verb
Profanity (diction)
46. 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
Tone
Legend
Rhetoric
Narration
47. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Heroic couplet
4 sentence types
Dactylic
Omniscient
48. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Hubris
Verse
Ballad
Character
49. A wise saying - usually short and written.
situation irony
Aphorism
Vulgarity
Folktale
50. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Adverb
End rhyme