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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. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Anecdote
Limerick
Cliche
Euphemism
2. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Fable
Allegory
Genre
3. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Allusion
Western
Ambiguity
Couplet
4. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Adjective
Paradox
Plot
Epic
5. The telling of a story.
Narration
Adjective
Stanza
Foreshadowing
6. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Archaic (diction)
Existentialism
Semantics
Clause
7. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Repetition
Flashback
Profanity (diction)
Personification
8. 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
Western
Euphemism
Cliche
Tone
9. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Lyric
Western
Jargon
Anapestic Meter
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
Internal rhyme
Oxymoron
Short story
Character
11. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Jargon (diction)
Malapropism
Western
Pronoun
12. U U '
Novella
Participle
Anapestic
Folktale
13. U '
Fantasy
Dialect (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
Iambic (foot)
14. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Paradox
Myth
Colloquialisms (diction)
Clause
15. The study of the structure of words.
Participle
Morphology
Connotation
Haiku
16. 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.'
Anecdote
Protagonist
Folktale
Elegy
17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Malapropism
Mood
Clause
Moral
18. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
Hyperbole
Rhythm
etymology
19. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Preposition
Internal rhyme
Sonnet
Novella
20. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Double speak
Transcendentalism
Plot
Protagonist
21. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Protagonist
Paradox
Trochaic (foot)
22. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Dialect (diction)
Limited omniscient
Mystery
Foot
23. 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.
Meter
Epic
Paradox
Horror
24. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Science fiction
Verb
Novella
25. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Participle
Limerick
Apostrophe
Internal rhyme
26. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Parody
Ballad
Romance
Denotation
27. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Folktale
dramatic irony
Western
Characterization
28. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Elegy
Couplet
Preposition
Setting
29. 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
Free verse
Novella
Apostrophe
Malapropism
30. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Point of View
Rhythm
Diction
Tragedy
31. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Flashback
Euphemism
Slang (diction)
32. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Rhetoric
Hyperbole
Ballad
Stanza
33. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Point of View
Mystery
Style
34. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Limerick
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Refrain
Imagery
35. 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.
Alliteration
Horror
Holistic Scoring
Ambiguity
36. ' U
Repetition
Myth
Caesura
Trochaic (foot)
37. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Transcendentalism
Frame tale
Aphorism
Anecdote
38. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Short story
situation irony
Euphemism
Historical fiction
39. The writer says one thing and means another
Allusion
verbal irony
Connosance
Camera view
40. 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.
Phrase
Hyperbole
Fable
Stanza
41. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Holistic Scoring
Character
Moral
42. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Flashback
Free verse
Mood
Semantics
43. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Short story
Narrative Point of View
Antagonist
Dialect (diction)
44. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Voice
Pragmatics
Elegy
45. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Voice
Foreshadowing
Dialect (diction)
Fairy Tale
46. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Oxymoron
Article
Rhythm
Satire
47. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Limited omniscient
Aphorism
Phonetics
Denotation
48. The study of the structure of sentences.
Existentialism
Horror
Syntax
Novella
49. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
End rhyme
Dialect
Mystery
Connosance
50. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
Assonance
Morphology
Allusion