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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 word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Epic
Verb
Third Person
Onomatopoeia
2. 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
Romance
Sonnet
First Person
Pronoun
3. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Participle
Preposition
First Person
Mood
4. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Connotation
Noun
Character
5. ' U U
Western
Dactylic
Conflict
Horror
6. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Irony
4 sentence types
Satire
Dialect (diction)
7. ' U
Limerick
Trochaic (foot)
Euphemism
Colloquialisms (diction)
8. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Paradox
Camera view
Aphorism
9. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Fairy Tale
Lyric
Article
Narrative Point of View
10. 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.
Preposition
Omniscient
Legend
Anapestic Meter
11. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Antagonist
Third Person
Narration
Epic
12. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Imagery
Paradox
Noun
13. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Style
Blank verse
Limited omniscient
Oxymoron
14. 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
Setting
situation irony
Adverb
Frame tale
15. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
End rhyme
Satire
Dialect
Analogy
16. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Pragmatics
Conflict
Morphology
Dialect
17. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Frame tale
Symbol
Canto
18. 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.
Semantics
Onomatopoeia
Limerick
dramatic irony
19. 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
verbal irony
dramatic irony
Existentialism
20. 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.
Science fiction
Transcendentalism
Frame tale
Flashback
21. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Historical fiction
Connotation
Ballad
Jargon
22. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Tragedy
Verb
Repetition
Parody
23. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Conjunction
Anapestic Meter
Blank verse
Foreshadowing
24. 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.
Anapestic
Jargon
Hyperbole
Folktale
25. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Refrain
Dactylic
Jargon
Antagonist
26. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Article
Ballad
Elegy
Profanity (diction)
27. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Sonnet
Slang (diction)
etymology
Imagery
28. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Paradox
Legend
Dialect
Connotation
29. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Character
Holistic Scoring
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Phrase
30. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Protagonist
Antagonist
Western
31. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Myth
Novella
Euphemism
Malapropism
32. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
verbal irony
Analogy
Fantasy
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Voice
Point of View
Iambic (foot)
34. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Fairy Tale
Metaphor
Repetition
Jargon (diction)
35. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Protagonist
Autobiography
Jargon (diction)
Setting
36. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Fable
Pronoun
Fairy Tale
37. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Analogy
Internal rhyme
Phrase
38. 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.
Elegy
Essay
Refrain
Myth
39. 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
Setting
Short story
etymology
Caesura
40. The study of the orgin of words
Onomatopoeia
etymology
Hubris
Biography
41. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Aphorism
Novel
Noun
Phrase
42. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Setting
Adverb
Connotation
43. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Voice
Limited omniscient
Mystery
Protagonist
44. 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.
Apostrophe
Refrain
Holistic Scoring
Irony
45. 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
Voice
Epic
Fantasy
Hubris
46. A person or being in a narrative
Phrase
Participle
Connosance
Character
47. The writer says one thing and means another
Fable
Canto
verbal irony
Characterization
48. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Irony
Anapestic
Noun
Rhythm
49. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Couplet
Camera view
Refrain
Adverb
50. 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
Style
Dialect
Rhythm