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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. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Haiku
Personification
Jargon (diction)
Symbol
2. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Narration
Anapestic Meter
Character
Allegory
3. 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
Novel
Enjambment
Protagonist
Alliteration
4. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Denouement
dramatic irony
Verse
Cliche
5. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Trochaic (foot)
Flashback
Foot
Oxymoron
6. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Anecdote
Alliteration
Setting
7. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Euphemism
Limited omniscient
Morphology
8. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Participle
Antagonist
Semantics
Conflict
9. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Heroic couplet
Repetition
Characterization
Novella
10. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Denouement
Ballad
Mood
Refrain
11. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
Limited omniscient
Jargon (diction)
12. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Dialect (diction)
Voice
Paradox
Document (letter - diary - journal)
13. 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.
End rhyme
Existentialism
Mystery
Camera view
14. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.
Assonance
Imagery
Hyperbole
Preposition
15. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Anecdote
Free verse
Ballad
16. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Meter
Blank verse
Pronoun
Fairy Tale
17. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'
Elegy
Verse
Caesura
Short story
18. A person or being in a narrative
Setting
Participle
Allusion
Character
19. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Dialect
Parody
Cliche
Article
20. Persuasive writing.
Moral
Rhetoric
Novella
Refrain
21. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Essay
Existentialism
End rhyme
22. The study of the structure of sentences.
Double speak
Syntax
Connotation
Omniscient
23. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Novel
Fairy Tale
Anecdote
Existentialism
24. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Free verse
Frame tale
Satire
Metaphor
25. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Frame tale
Document (letter - diary - journal)
situation irony
Phrase
26. 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.
Free verse
Sonnet
Myth
Fantasy
27. 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.
Epic
Blank verse
Transcendentalism
Irony
28. The study of the meaning in language.
Protagonist
Semantics
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Hyperbole
29. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
First Person
Internal rhyme
Pragmatics
Lyric
30. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Historical fiction
Denouement
Western
Blank verse
31. ' U U
Clause
Dactylic
Novel
Anapestic
32. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
etymology
Fantasy
Trochaic (foot)
Connosance
33. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Genre
Couplet
Metaphor
34. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Hyperbole
situation irony
Romance
35. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Parody
Clause
Phonology
Double speak
36. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Frame tale
Myth
Folktale
Euphemism
37. 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
Camera view
Horror
Pronoun
38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Horror
Alliteration
Phonology
Euphemism
39. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Stanza
Setting
Article
4 sentence types
40. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Trochaic (foot)
Folktale
Denotation
Genre
41. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Aphorism
Conjunction
Ambiguity
Autobiography
42. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Iambic (foot)
Slang (diction)
Third Person
Aphorism
43. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Onomatopoeia
Tone
Autobiography
Vulgarity
44. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Semantics
Dialect
Characterization
Noun
45. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Camera view
Enjambment
Adjective
Horror
46. 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
Character
Heroic couplet
Colloquialisms (diction)
47. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Syntax
Frame tale
Cliche
Diction
48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Repetition
Allusion
Mystery
Novel
49. 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
Essay
Semantics
Autobiography
Assonance
50. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Preposition
Paradox
Simile
Style