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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 variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Archaic (diction)
Third Person
Characterization
2. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Sonnet
Paradox
Dialect
Couplet
3. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Analogy
Flashback
Pragmatics
Heroic couplet
4. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Narration
Phonetics
Blank verse
Novel
5. 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
Moral
Mood
Epic
Novel
6. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Setting
Oxymoron
Voice
Adjective
7. 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
Dialect
Antagonist
Phrase
Western
8. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Romance
Conflict
Hubris
Mystery
9. U U '
Historical fiction
Setting
Anapestic
Plot
10. 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
Narrative Point of View
Free verse
Limerick
Folktale
11. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Connotation
Setting
Romance
Phonetics
12. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Couplet
Allusion
Setting
Cliche
13. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Character
Moral
Tone
Third Person
14. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Mystery
Syntax
Noun
Metaphor
15. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Cliche
Vulgarity
Parody
Article
16. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Couplet
Oxymoron
4 sentence types
Onomatopoeia
17. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Epic
Limited omniscient
Ambiguity
Transcendentalism
18. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Anapestic
Style
Fairy Tale
Clause
19. 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.
Allusion
Protagonist
Phonology
Hyperbole
20. 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.'
Haiku
Morphology
Dialect
Elegy
21. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Slang (diction)
Genre
Legend
Phonology
22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Setting
Western
Denotation
23. 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 .
Hubris
Flashback
Meter
Caesura
24. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Trochaic (foot)
Noun
Novella
Free verse
25. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Connotation
Parody
Satire
Fantasy
26. The telling of a story.
Enjambment
Allegory
Narration
Allusion
27. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Frame tale
Participle
Archaic (diction)
28. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Caesura
Denouement
Article
Slang (diction)
29. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Connotation
Folktale
Heroic couplet
dramatic irony
30. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Iambic (foot)
Limited omniscient
Satire
Conflict
31. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Biography
Symbol
Apostrophe
Heroic couplet
32. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Biography
Alliteration
Meter
Denouement
33. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
End rhyme
Existentialism
Point of View
34. The main section of a long poem.
Legend
Vulgarity
Canto
Third Person
35. The writer says one thing and means another
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Participle
Semantics
verbal irony
36. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Verb
Repetition
Slang (diction)
Analogy
37. 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.
etymology
Personification
Mood
Science fiction
38. 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
Narration
Semantics
Anapestic
39. ' U U
Clause
Existentialism
Dactylic
Jargon
40. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Short story
Fairy Tale
Jargon (diction)
Euphemism
41. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
First Person
Elegy
Allegory
Legend
42. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Lyric
Cliche
Horror
43. 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
Verse
Foot
Frame tale
Mystery
44. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Metaphor
Verse
Satire
45. 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
Simile
Rhetoric
Hubris
Legend
46. A person or being in a narrative
Character
Short story
Ballad
Dialect
47. The study of the meaning in language.
Conflict
Existentialism
Semantics
Canto
48. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Preposition
Parody
Canto
49. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Malapropism
Narrative Point of View
Syntax
Fable
50. The study of the structure of sentences.
Conflict
Semantics
Syntax
Rhetoric