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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 verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Camera view
Morphology
Participle
Hyperbole
2. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Dialect
Double speak
Analogy
Clause
3. 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
Conjunction
Adverb
Rhythm
Folktale
4. ' U U
Dactylic
Denouement
Genre
Profanity (diction)
5. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Camera view
Hyperbole
Limited omniscient
Frame tale
6. 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
Verb
End rhyme
Fairy Tale
Metaphor
7. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
dramatic irony
Legend
Enjambment
8. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Fable
Euphemism
Syntax
Omniscient
9. A person or being in a narrative
Short story
Phonetics
Character
Anapestic Meter
10. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Characterization
Profanity (diction)
Biography
11. 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
Legend
Participle
Oxymoron
Dialect (diction)
12. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Omniscient
Noun
Adverb
Antagonist
13. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Plot
Internal rhyme
Article
Personification
14. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Connosance
Foot
Tragedy
verbal irony
15. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Conflict
Cliche
Mystery
Connosance
16. 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.
Antagonist
Stanza
Ambiguity
Free verse
17. 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.
Limerick
Narrative Point of View
Imagery
Hubris
18. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Character
Diction
Clause
Phonetics
19. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Lyric
Voice
Archaic (diction)
Dialect (diction)
20. The writer says one thing and means another
Meter
Repetition
Fantasy
verbal irony
21. U U '
Anapestic
Omniscient
Ambiguity
Symbol
22. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Morphology
Epic
Anecdote
Diction
23. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Adverb
Clause
Narrative Point of View
24. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Narration
Anapestic
Voice
25. 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.
Setting
Simile
Anapestic Meter
Apostrophe
26. 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
Flashback
Essay
Allusion
Sonnet
27. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Profanity (diction)
Essay
Existentialism
Style
28. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Rhythm
Simile
Dialect
Frame tale
29. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
verbal irony
Archaic (diction)
Jargon
Historical fiction
30. 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.
Protagonist
Holistic Scoring
Jargon (diction)
Alliteration
31. The study of the structure of words.
Essay
Morphology
Lyric
Moral
32. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Conjunction
Jargon (diction)
Preposition
Characterization
33. 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
Couplet
Enjambment
4 sentence types
Moral
34. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Biography
Phonology
Point of View
Stanza
35. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Haiku
Couplet
Denotation
36. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Third Person
Double speak
Imagery
Euphemism
37. 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.
Semantics
Mystery
Assonance
Alliteration
38. 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
Preposition
Fantasy
Flashback
Euphemism
39. 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
Protagonist
Hyperbole
verbal irony
40. The main section of a long poem.
dramatic irony
Denouement
Canto
Character
41. The perspective from which a story is told.
Setting
Point of View
Vulgarity
Protagonist
42. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Short story
Limerick
Vulgarity
Denouement
43. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Protagonist
Verse
Preposition
Ballad
44. The study of the meaning in language.
Setting
Dialect (diction)
Semantics
Antagonist
45. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Omniscient
Novel
Symbol
Adverb
46. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Fantasy
Internal rhyme
Verse
Meter
47. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
Adverb
Enjambment
Limited omniscient
48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Alliteration
Repetition
Vulgarity
Allusion
49. 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
Moral
Preposition
Historical fiction
50. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
Tragedy
Adjective
Antagonist
Fantasy