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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 use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Holistic Scoring
Imagery
Hubris
Anecdote
2. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Point of View
Pronoun
Stanza
Alliteration
3. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Anapestic
Repetition
dramatic irony
Dactylic
4. The study of the structure of sentences.
Third Person
Point of View
Syntax
Aphorism
5. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Frame tale
Connosance
Conjunction
Pragmatics
6. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Folktale
Flashback
Anapestic
Science fiction
7. 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.
Semantics
Myth
Fable
Omniscient
8. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Trochaic (foot)
Short story
Allusion
9. 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.
Conjunction
Archaic (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Sonnet
10. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Couplet
Profanity (diction)
Ballad
Anapestic Meter
11. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Assonance
Morphology
Limerick
Verse
12. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Hyperbole
Pronoun
Setting
Parody
13. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Setting
Omniscient
Denouement
Rhetoric
14. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Dialect
First Person
Trochaic (foot)
Refrain
15. The writer says one thing and means another
Narrative Point of View
verbal irony
Preposition
Simile
16. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Autobiography
Euphemism
Horror
Analogy
17. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Article
Tone
Caesura
Novel
18. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Allusion
Verse
Canto
19. 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
Heroic couplet
Apostrophe
Limerick
Tragedy
20. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Denotation
Simile
Narrative Point of View
4 sentence types
21. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Jargon (diction)
Euphemism
Canto
22. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Satire
Repetition
Cliche
23. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Imagery
Canto
Satire
24. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
etymology
Archaic (diction)
Participle
Mood
25. The perspective from which a story is told.
Preposition
Haiku
Biography
Point of View
26. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
End rhyme
Romance
Tone
27. U '
Historical fiction
situation irony
Existentialism
Iambic (foot)
28. 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
Metaphor
Fairy Tale
Profanity (diction)
Existentialism
29. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Holistic Scoring
Dactylic
Moral
Narrative Point of View
30. 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.
Anecdote
Adverb
Trochaic (foot)
Limited omniscient
31. 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.
Lyric
Antagonist
Novella
Science fiction
32. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Third Person
Repetition
Pragmatics
Onomatopoeia
33. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Euphemism
Denotation
First Person
Dialect
34. 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.
Dactylic
Adjective
Preposition
Hyperbole
35. 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
Conjunction
Dactylic
Hubris
36. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Pragmatics
Style
Refrain
Fairy Tale
37. 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.
Elegy
Satire
Holistic Scoring
Preposition
38. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Protagonist
Fairy Tale
Connotation
Romance
39. 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
Foot
Syntax
Rhythm
Participle
40. 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
Paradox
Allusion
Sonnet
Novella
41. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Internal rhyme
Conjunction
Frame tale
42. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Ambiguity
Archaic (diction)
Dialect
Vulgarity
43. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Simile
Rhythm
Foreshadowing
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
Euphemism
Essay
Mood
Biography
45. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Simile
End rhyme
Euphemism
Mystery
46. 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
Omniscient
Analogy
Folktale
First Person
47. 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.
Conflict
Apostrophe
Holistic Scoring
Myth
48. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Euphemism
Malapropism
Onomatopoeia
Blank verse
49. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Assonance
Western
Diction
50. 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
Phonology
Phonetics
Heroic couplet
Short story