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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. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Morphology
Slang (diction)
Internal rhyme
2. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Myth
Rhetoric
Euphemism
3. 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.
Tragedy
Irony
Elegy
Narrative Point of View
4. The study of the orgin of words
Limerick
Point of View
etymology
Antagonist
5. U U '
Rhythm
Anapestic
Hyperbole
Vulgarity
6. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Limited omniscient
Adverb
Dialect (diction)
Jargon
7. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Couplet
Setting
Fantasy
Transcendentalism
8. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Internal rhyme
Epic
verbal irony
9. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Existentialism
Euphemism
Satire
Anapestic Meter
10. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Historical fiction
Ambiguity
Lyric
Dialect
11. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Connotation
Flashback
Setting
verbal irony
12. A person or being in a narrative
Character
Science fiction
etymology
Camera view
13. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Enjambment
Connosance
Slang (diction)
Cliche
14. U '
Allusion
Narrative Point of View
Metaphor
Iambic (foot)
15. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Imagery
Ambiguity
Voice
16. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.
Novella
4 sentence types
Anapestic
Conjunction
17. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Morphology
Refrain
Epic
Tone
18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Narrative Point of View
Profanity (diction)
Morphology
Internal rhyme
19. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
Verse
dramatic irony
Free verse
20. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Holistic Scoring
Paradox
Enjambment
21. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Mystery
Fable
Dialect (diction)
Euphemism
22. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Moral
Colloquialisms (diction)
Adverb
Metaphor
23. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Repetition
Participle
Fable
Couplet
24. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Elegy
Denotation
Phonology
Enjambment
25. 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
Clause
Vulgarity
Enjambment
Caesura
26. The main section of a long poem.
Semantics
Canto
Analogy
verbal irony
27. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Personification
Dactylic
Couplet
28. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Vulgarity
Symbol
Limerick
Jargon
29. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Novella
Simile
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
30. The telling of a story.
Onomatopoeia
Folktale
Narration
Irony
31. 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
Analogy
Caesura
Jargon (diction)
32. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Semantics
Preposition
Connosance
Phonetics
33. 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
Protagonist
Oxymoron
Ambiguity
Legend
34. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Lyric
Stanza
Allusion
Jargon
35. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Mood
Frame tale
Vulgarity
Assonance
36. 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.
Sonnet
Historical fiction
Anecdote
Holistic Scoring
37. 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
Romance
Antagonist
Lyric
Protagonist
38. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Connosance
Stanza
Rhetoric
39. 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
Biography
situation irony
Essay
Refrain
40. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Fairy Tale
Connosance
Analogy
Double speak
41. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Tragedy
Dialect
Trochaic (foot)
Free verse
42. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Holistic Scoring
Diction
etymology
Onomatopoeia
43. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Fairy Tale
Biography
Canto
Satire
44. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Point of View
Meter
Tragedy
Setting
45. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Connosance
Third Person
Autobiography
46. 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.
Refrain
Lyric
Hyperbole
Trochaic (foot)
47. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Novel
Essay
Rhythm
Blank verse
48. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Moral
Voice
Lyric
Dialect
49. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Limerick
Apostrophe
Couplet
50. 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
Morphology
Iambic (foot)
Stanza
Short story