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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 act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Imagery
Euphemism
Voice
Cliche
2. A person or being in a narrative
Holistic Scoring
Character
Euphemism
Ambiguity
3. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Setting
Colloquialisms (diction)
Canto
Archaic (diction)
4. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Phonetics
Archaic (diction)
Preposition
5. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Science fiction
Symbol
Autobiography
Flashback
6. 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
Hubris
Lyric
Myth
7. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Metaphor
Flashback
Conjunction
Novella
8. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Preposition
Genre
4 sentence types
9. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Folktale
Setting
Tone
Antagonist
10. 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
Dactylic
Essay
Rhetoric
Diction
11. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Profanity (diction)
Morphology
Tone
Ballad
12. 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.
Ambiguity
Character
Myth
Setting
13. The main section of a long poem.
Pronoun
Colloquialisms (diction)
Double speak
Canto
14. 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 .
Novella
Camera view
Caesura
Western
15. 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
Blank verse
Denotation
Conjunction
16. 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
Phonology
Vulgarity
Narrative Point of View
17. 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.
Profanity (diction)
Preposition
Alliteration
Novella
18. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Verb
Existentialism
Ambiguity
19. 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
Simile
Romance
Denotation
Semantics
20. The writer says one thing and means another
Plot
Setting
Character
verbal irony
21. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Transcendentalism
Free verse
Pragmatics
Omniscient
22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Profanity (diction)
Fairy Tale
Lyric
Simile
23. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Double speak
Hubris
Anecdote
Tone
24. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Third Person
Heroic couplet
Phrase
Double speak
25. The study of the meaning in language.
Holistic Scoring
Diction
Semantics
verbal irony
26. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Frame tale
Euphemism
Diction
4 sentence types
27. 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
Biography
Sonnet
Folktale
Frame tale
28. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Folktale
Novel
Free verse
Dialect (diction)
29. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Biography
Couplet
Epic
30. 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
Aphorism
Apostrophe
4 sentence types
Adverb
31. 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
Narrative Point of View
Elegy
Frame tale
Phonetics
32. The perspective from which a story is told.
Existentialism
Free verse
Point of View
Mood
33. 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
Double speak
Internal rhyme
Rhetoric
34. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Essay
Enjambment
Blank verse
Imagery
35. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Symbol
Tone
Assonance
Setting
36. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Couplet
Parody
Phonology
37. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Double speak
Moral
Foot
38. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Semantics
Moral
Frame tale
Cliche
39. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Euphemism
Colloquialisms (diction)
Epic
etymology
40. 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.
Hyperbole
Trochaic (foot)
4 sentence types
Euphemism
41. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Malapropism
Free verse
Ballad
Assonance
42. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Clause
Colloquialisms (diction)
Meter
43. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Colloquialisms (diction)
verbal irony
4 sentence types
Symbol
44. The telling of a story.
Apostrophe
Western
Limited omniscient
Narration
45. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Euphemism
Article
Ballad
Camera view
46. 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
Paradox
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
Mood
47. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Dialect
Autobiography
Narrative Point of View
Foot
48. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Euphemism
Couplet
Style
49. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Verb
Existentialism
Denouement
Anapestic
50. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Aphorism
Euphemism
Couplet
Paradox