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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 variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Connosance
Rhythm
Conjunction
2. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Diction
Setting
Clause
Verb
3. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Tone
Cliche
Novella
Participle
4. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Fable
Frame tale
Fairy Tale
Parody
5. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Profanity (diction)
Flashback
Connosance
Trochaic (foot)
6. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Narrative Point of View
Horror
Conflict
Pronoun
7. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Irony
Horror
4 sentence types
Tone
8. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Verse
Lyric
Epic
Setting
9. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Euphemism
Short story
Dialect
10. 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
Moral
Essay
Fantasy
Hubris
11. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Conjunction
situation irony
Meter
Style
12. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Onomatopoeia
End rhyme
Colloquialisms (diction)
13. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Camera view
Jargon
Point of View
14. 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.
Verse
Anapestic Meter
Protagonist
Diction
15. 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.
Allusion
Adjective
Science fiction
Stanza
16. The study of the orgin of words
Fairy Tale
Syntax
etymology
Novel
17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Fable
Moral
Repetition
Haiku
18. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Lyric
Anapestic
Archaic (diction)
19. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Essay
Jargon
Genre
Style
20. 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.
Slang (diction)
Free verse
Existentialism
Document (letter - diary - journal)
21. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Onomatopoeia
Verse
dramatic irony
Aphorism
22. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.
Pronoun
Dialect (diction)
Malapropism
Phonology
23. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Elegy
Double speak
Apostrophe
Heroic couplet
24. 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 .
Foreshadowing
Hubris
Dialect (diction)
Caesura
25. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Parody
etymology
verbal irony
26. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Apostrophe
Ballad
First Person
Science fiction
27. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Denotation
Flashback
Protagonist
Satire
28. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Denouement
Pragmatics
Canto
Genre
29. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
4 sentence types
Horror
Pragmatics
30. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Heroic couplet
Noun
Narrative Point of View
Phonology
31. The study of the structure of words.
Foot
Alliteration
Morphology
Antagonist
32. The study of the meaning in language.
Diction
Legend
Style
Semantics
33. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Jargon (diction)
Imagery
Clause
Analogy
34. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Fairy Tale
Simile
Sonnet
Profanity (diction)
35. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Conjunction
Genre
Ambiguity
Metaphor
36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Genre
Fable
Omniscient
Phonology
37. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Enjambment
Voice
Euphemism
Moral
38. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Iambic (foot)
Myth
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
39. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Novella
Anapestic
Folktale
Dialect
40. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Essay
Preposition
Omniscient
41. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Essay
Adjective
Mood
Meter
42. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Apostrophe
etymology
Enjambment
4 sentence types
43. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Metaphor
Mystery
Verb
44. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Semantics
Imagery
Satire
Assonance
45. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Foot
Antagonist
Archaic (diction)
dramatic irony
46. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Epic
Limited omniscient
Imagery
47. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Setting
Antagonist
Morphology
Clause
48. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Romance
Folktale
Anecdote
Assonance
49. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
dramatic irony
Anapestic Meter
Narration
Symbol
50. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Malapropism
Moral
Hubris
Verb