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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 text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Satire
Parody
Metaphor
Autobiography
2. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Flashback
Transcendentalism
Analogy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
3. 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
Euphemism
Irony
Oxymoron
Paradox
4. 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
Jargon (diction)
Noun
Legend
Pragmatics
5. The perspective from which a story is told.
Western
Point of View
Ballad
Connotation
6. 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
etymology
Onomatopoeia
Foot
Fantasy
7. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Slang (diction)
Profanity (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Legend
8. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Plot
Anapestic
Imagery
Double speak
9. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
situation irony
Tragedy
verbal irony
10. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Fairy Tale
Ballad
Verse
Anecdote
11. The study of the meaning in language.
Blank verse
Foreshadowing
Free verse
Semantics
12. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Omniscient
Setting
Denotation
Genre
13. 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
Novel
Apostrophe
Denotation
Archaic (diction)
14. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Elegy
Clause
Diction
Metaphor
15. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Fairy Tale
Denouement
Antagonist
Diction
16. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Ballad
Novel
Adverb
17. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Internal rhyme
Style
Camera view
Novella
18. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'
Elegy
Protagonist
Denouement
Repetition
19. 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
Adverb
Foreshadowing
Symbol
20. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Paradox
Dialect
Jargon (diction)
Participle
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.
Fantasy
Stanza
Flashback
Ambiguity
22. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Tragedy
Denotation
Jargon
23. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Plot
Meter
Biography
Heroic couplet
24. 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
Sonnet
Short story
Plot
Slang (diction)
25. The writer says one thing and means another
Lyric
verbal irony
Vulgarity
Plot
26. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Euphemism
Mood
Flashback
dramatic irony
27. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Allusion
Foreshadowing
Denouement
Alliteration
28. 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
4 sentence types
Canto
Limited omniscient
29. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
situation irony
Heroic couplet
Assonance
Refrain
30. 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 .
Caesura
Phonetics
Satire
Biography
31. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Flashback
Noun
Euphemism
Heroic couplet
32. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Canto
Adverb
etymology
33. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Free verse
Cliche
Anapestic
Third Person
34. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Cliche
Character
Fable
Narrative Point of View
35. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Rhythm
Enjambment
Style
First Person
36. 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.
Couplet
Third Person
etymology
Pronoun
37. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Antagonist
Omniscient
Syntax
38. U '
Participle
Genre
Iambic (foot)
Blank verse
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
Foreshadowing
Legend
Heroic couplet
Fairy Tale
40. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Adverb
Heroic couplet
Dialect
Characterization
41. 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.
Legend
Camera view
Couplet
4 sentence types
42. 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.
Pronoun
Preposition
Fantasy
Clause
43. ' U U
Cliche
Dactylic
Phonetics
Euphemism
44. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Third Person
Metaphor
Jargon
Mood
45. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Alliteration
Euphemism
Denotation
Ballad
46. The main character or hero of a written work.
Enjambment
4 sentence types
Onomatopoeia
Protagonist
47. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Connosance
Trochaic (foot)
Tone
Narration
48. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Noun
Limited omniscient
Profanity (diction)
Denotation
49. 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
Haiku
etymology
Fantasy
Iambic (foot)
50. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Profanity (diction)
Conflict
Imagery
Protagonist