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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
Flashback
Denouement
Jargon (diction)
Narrative Point of View
2. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Allusion
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Preposition
3. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Limerick
Slang (diction)
Internal rhyme
4. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Symbol
Voice
Flashback
Internal rhyme
5. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Character
Satire
Clause
6. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Conjunction
Profanity (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
7. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Anapestic Meter
Folktale
End rhyme
Dialect
8. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Cliche
Setting
Connotation
9. The study of the structure of sentences.
Conflict
Internal rhyme
Tone
Syntax
10. 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.
Adverb
Existentialism
Science fiction
Vulgarity
11. The study of the structure of words.
Flashback
Sonnet
Morphology
Dactylic
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.
Legend
Irony
Repetition
Camera view
13. 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.
Myth
Pronoun
Malapropism
Phonology
14. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Malapropism
End rhyme
Personification
Meter
15. 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.
situation irony
Pragmatics
Camera view
Euphemism
16. Persuasive writing.
Foreshadowing
Diction
Anapestic
Rhetoric
17. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Horror
Denouement
Euphemism
End rhyme
18. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
First Person
Oxymoron
Blank verse
Tone
19. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Euphemism
Fable
Frame tale
Aphorism
20. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Conjunction
Transcendentalism
Jargon
Protagonist
21. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Ambiguity
Novel
Mood
Double speak
22. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Caesura
Protagonist
Style
23. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Romance
Plot
Rhythm
Euphemism
24. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Double speak
Blank verse
Paradox
25. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Omniscient
Essay
Allusion
Setting
26. 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
Connosance
Euphemism
Fantasy
Anapestic
27. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Jargon
Euphemism
Biography
Adjective
28. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Autobiography
verbal irony
Slang (diction)
Setting
29. 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
Myth
Fairy Tale
Paradox
Euphemism
30. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Antagonist
Antagonist
Slang (diction)
31. The writer says one thing and means another
Allusion
verbal irony
Narration
Point of View
32. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Anecdote
Malapropism
dramatic irony
Assonance
33. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Clause
Conflict
Paradox
Adjective
34. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Meter
Blank verse
Cliche
Repetition
35. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Allegory
Characterization
Narration
36. 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
situation irony
Rhythm
verbal irony
37. ' U U
Tragedy
Dactylic
Rhythm
Personification
38. 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
Sonnet
Verb
Repetition
Heroic couplet
39. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Point of View
Euphemism
Anapestic Meter
40. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Novel
Protagonist
Narrative Point of View
Hubris
41. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Ballad
Profanity (diction)
Phonetics
42. 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 -
Lyric
Transcendentalism
Style
Participle
43. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Hubris
Dactylic
Dialect
Colloquialisms (diction)
44. 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
Dialect
Foot
Apostrophe
Pronoun
45. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Trochaic (foot)
Internal rhyme
Jargon (diction)
46. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Plot
Characterization
Folktale
47. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Syntax
Slang (diction)
Verse
Trochaic (foot)
48. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Limerick
Character
Fairy Tale
Participle
49. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
verbal irony
Fable
Phrase
Imagery
50. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.
Lyric
Oxymoron
Hyperbole
Adjective