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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. The perspective from which a story is told.
Conflict
Camera view
Point of View
Vulgarity
2. 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.
Setting
Camera view
Caesura
Blank verse
3. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Metaphor
Refrain
Vulgarity
Denouement
4. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Historical fiction
Verse
Repetition
Imagery
5. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Biography
Verb
Folktale
6. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Anecdote
Protagonist
Connosance
Folktale
7. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Horror
Satire
Imagery
Preposition
8. Persuasive writing.
Pronoun
Rhetoric
Free verse
Verse
9. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Colloquialisms (diction)
Limited omniscient
Couplet
10. 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
Hubris
Historical fiction
Short story
Dialect
11. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
Short story
First Person
Apostrophe
Adjective
12. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Autobiography
4 sentence types
Character
13. U '
Biography
Existentialism
Parody
Iambic (foot)
14. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Pronoun
Ballad
Metaphor
15. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Biography
Plot
Malapropism
Character
16. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Caesura
Phonology
Connotation
17. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Paradox
Satire
Dialect
Repetition
18. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Onomatopoeia
Autobiography
Slang (diction)
Oxymoron
19. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Novella
Couplet
Transcendentalism
Voice
20. 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.
Conflict
Fable
Satire
etymology
21. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Personification
Romance
Existentialism
22. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Jargon (diction)
Euphemism
Ballad
Pronoun
23. The main section of a long poem.
Transcendentalism
Satire
Canto
Enjambment
24. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Denouement
Internal rhyme
Foreshadowing
Sonnet
25. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Camera view
Third Person
Personification
Novel
26. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Mystery
Fable
Mood
27. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Allegory
Foreshadowing
Noun
28. 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 -
Limited omniscient
Aphorism
Double speak
Transcendentalism
29. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Genre
Moral
Dactylic
30. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Iambic (foot)
Analogy
Parody
31. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Jargon (diction)
Third Person
Protagonist
32. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Third Person
First Person
Dialect
Refrain
33. 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.
Characterization
Dactylic
Holistic Scoring
Existentialism
34. 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
Foot
Science fiction
Style
35. The study of the structure of sentences.
Legend
Double speak
Syntax
Tone
36. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses
Holistic Scoring
Biography
Morphology
Sonnet
37. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Allegory
Apostrophe
Alliteration
First Person
38. 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.
Euphemism
4 sentence types
Irony
Horror
39. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Verse
Syntax
Genre
40. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Camera view
Phrase
Foreshadowing
41. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Participle
Narrative Point of View
verbal irony
Malapropism
42. 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
Legend
Character
Tragedy
Novella
43. 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.
Fantasy
Anapestic Meter
Conflict
Romance
44. 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
First Person
situation irony
Biography
Fantasy
45. 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.
Verb
Pronoun
Noun
Genre
46. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
Haiku
Clause
Frame tale
47. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Connosance
Metaphor
Cliche
Pronoun
48. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Science fiction
Aphorism
4 sentence types
Fairy Tale
49. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Fairy Tale
Frame tale
situation irony
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Pronoun
Anapestic
Voice
Point of View