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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Narrative Point of View
Syntax
Diction
Personification
2. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Autobiography
Foreshadowing
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Limited omniscient
3. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Holistic Scoring
Denouement
Biography
4. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Antagonist
Anapestic
Pronoun
5. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
First Person
Setting
Novel
etymology
6. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Plot
Colloquialisms (diction)
Genre
Double speak
7. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Antagonist
Satire
Plot
Clause
8. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Slang (diction)
Short story
Conflict
End rhyme
9. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Parody
Narration
Analogy
Protagonist
10. The perspective from which a story is told.
Profanity (diction)
Point of View
verbal irony
Clause
11. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Diction
Hyperbole
Antagonist
Novel
12. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Setting
Phonology
Paradox
Jargon
13. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Ambiguity
Alliteration
Third Person
Tragedy
14. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.
Existentialism
Enjambment
Irony
Assonance
15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Stanza
Couplet
Alliteration
Genre
16. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Narrative Point of View
Hyperbole
Euphemism
17. U '
Blank verse
Iambic (foot)
Point of View
Short story
18. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Tragedy
Rhythm
Article
Connotation
19. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Narration
Folktale
Biography
20. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Personification
Dactylic
Dialect
Setting
21. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Setting
Caesura
Internal rhyme
Onomatopoeia
22. ' U
Aphorism
Trochaic (foot)
Jargon (diction)
Caesura
23. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Conflict
Refrain
Flashback
Mystery
24. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Profanity (diction)
Alliteration
Hubris
Novel
25. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Noun
Narration
Internal rhyme
Connosance
26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Pragmatics
Rhetoric
Jargon (diction)
27. 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
Repetition
Short story
Frame tale
Romance
28. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Anapestic
Archaic (diction)
Short story
Hyperbole
29. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Phrase
Aphorism
Personification
Western
30. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Connosance
Dialect
Transcendentalism
Phrase
31. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Phonology
Free verse
Satire
Romance
32. 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
Short story
Semantics
Existentialism
Romance
33. A person or being in a narrative
Lyric
Iambic (foot)
Character
Romance
34. The study of the structure of sentences.
Style
Syntax
Paradox
Limited omniscient
35. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Rhetoric
Iambic (foot)
Meter
Omniscient
36. The study of the structure of words.
Diction
Science fiction
Setting
Morphology
37. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Frame tale
Limerick
Allusion
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.
Syntax
Article
Existentialism
Characterization
39. 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
Western
Setting
Repetition
Denotation
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.
Antagonist
Western
Hyperbole
Protagonist
41. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Parody
Limited omniscient
Diction
42. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Article
Holistic Scoring
Flashback
Characterization
43. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Historical fiction
Autobiography
Oxymoron
Slang (diction)
44. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Anapestic Meter
Dactylic
Limerick
Novella
45. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Western
Anapestic Meter
Camera view
Metaphor
46. 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
Setting
Enjambment
Conflict
Novella
47. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
dramatic irony
Noun
Meter
Vulgarity
48. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Stanza
Novel
Camera view
Folktale
49. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Stanza
Elegy
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
Character
Phonology
Mystery
Euphemism