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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, 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).






2. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






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.






4. The study of the orgin of words






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6. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






7. The time and place in which a story occurs.






8. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






9. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






10. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






11. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






12. A person or being in a narrative






13. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






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15. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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.






17. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






19. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






20. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






21. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






22. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






23. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






24. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






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






26. The main section of a long poem.






27. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






28. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






29. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






30. The telling of a story.






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 .






32. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






34. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






35. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






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.






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






38. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






40. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






41. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






42. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






43. A story about a person's life written by another person.






44. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






45. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






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.






47. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






48. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






49. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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