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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 story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Limerick
Anapestic Meter
Euphemism
2. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Novel
Article
Anapestic Meter
Characterization
3. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Irony
Setting
Narrative Point of View
Jargon
4. 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
Tragedy
Autobiography
5. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Semantics
Oxymoron
Aphorism
Preposition
6. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.
Paradox
Myth
Analogy
Flashback
7. 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.
Flashback
Repetition
Voice
Conjunction
8. 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 .
Colloquialisms (diction)
Romance
Allusion
Caesura
9. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Elegy
Epic
Foot
10. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Personification
Euphemism
Horror
Cliche
11. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Denotation
Malapropism
Phonetics
Horror
12. 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.
Semantics
Irony
Voice
Colloquialisms (diction)
13. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Onomatopoeia
Internal rhyme
Imagery
Anecdote
14. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Simile
Meter
Dialect (diction)
Setting
15. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Limerick
Essay
Refrain
Free verse
16. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Couplet
Novella
Syntax
Antagonist
17. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Adjective
Vulgarity
Meter
Preposition
18. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Symbol
Denotation
etymology
19. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.
Canto
Noun
Moral
Haiku
20. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Metaphor
Phrase
Conjunction
Style
21. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Verb
Point of View
Genre
Novella
22. 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.
Adverb
Malapropism
Existentialism
Epic
23. The telling of a story.
Pronoun
Narration
Metaphor
Folktale
24. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
dramatic irony
Conflict
Autobiography
Iambic (foot)
25. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Diction
Enjambment
Caesura
Voice
26. 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 -
Dialect
Pronoun
Limited omniscient
Transcendentalism
27. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Verb
Tragedy
Dialect
Tone
28. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Haiku
Clause
Noun
Participle
29. 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
Diction
Fantasy
Moral
30. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Trochaic (foot)
Clause
Myth
31. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Semantics
Rhythm
Refrain
Characterization
32. ' U
Setting
Symbol
Mystery
Trochaic (foot)
33. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Symbol
Alliteration
Participle
34. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Adjective
Stanza
Simile
35. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Narrative Point of View
Symbol
Myth
Imagery
36. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Jargon
Anapestic
situation irony
Heroic couplet
37. The study of the structure of words.
Historical fiction
Phonetics
Morphology
Analogy
38. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Profanity (diction)
Myth
Assonance
39. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Autobiography
Conjunction
Colloquialisms (diction)
Jargon
40. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Antagonist
Historical fiction
Adjective
41. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
situation irony
Pronoun
Hyperbole
42. 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
Science fiction
Phrase
Fairy Tale
Romance
43. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Mystery
Setting
Dialect (diction)
Blank verse
44. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Couplet
Foreshadowing
Fable
45. 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
Analogy
Conjunction
Vulgarity
46. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Onomatopoeia
Aphorism
Metaphor
End rhyme
47. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Fable
Elegy
Setting
Ballad
48. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Caesura
Tragedy
Phonology
Plot
49. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Parody
Conflict
Science fiction
Cliche
50. 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
Analogy
Western
Verse
Connosance