SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
Praxis Middle School Language Arts
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
praxis
,
english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Antagonist
Analogy
Setting
Refrain
2. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Clause
Science fiction
Novel
Legend
3. 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.'
Flashback
Elegy
Tragedy
Participle
4. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
verbal irony
Caesura
Allegory
5. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Third Person
Novel
Allusion
Protagonist
6. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Couplet
Profanity (diction)
Dialect (diction)
Science fiction
7. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Imagery
Setting
Narrative Point of View
8. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Setting
Euphemism
Character
situation irony
9. 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.
Ballad
Adverb
Article
Adjective
10. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Repetition
Ambiguity
Trochaic (foot)
11. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Jargon (diction)
Alliteration
Adjective
Article
12. 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
Character
Onomatopoeia
Meter
Apostrophe
13. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Trochaic (foot)
Paradox
situation irony
14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hyperbole
Hubris
Foot
Couplet
15. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Canto
Tone
Cliche
Flashback
16. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Voice
Anecdote
Couplet
17. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Foot
Slang (diction)
Omniscient
Transcendentalism
18. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Folktale
Dialect (diction)
Omniscient
19. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Style
Conjunction
Double speak
20. The main section of a long poem.
dramatic irony
Canto
Imagery
Antagonist
21. 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 .
Genre
Caesura
Internal rhyme
Hubris
22. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Euphemism
Satire
Vulgarity
23. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Novel
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Oxymoron
24. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Narrative Point of View
Rhythm
verbal irony
Antagonist
25. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Imagery
Vulgarity
situation irony
Conflict
26. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Adverb
Adjective
Characterization
Haiku
27. ' U
Connosance
Trochaic (foot)
Verse
Denotation
28. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Profanity (diction)
Ballad
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Fairy Tale
29. 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
Mystery
Sonnet
Assonance
Apostrophe
30. 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
Simile
verbal irony
Dialect (diction)
31. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Meter
Slang (diction)
Foreshadowing
Metaphor
32. 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.
Iambic (foot)
Lyric
Anapestic Meter
Archaic (diction)
33. 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
Antagonist
Noun
Lyric
34. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Denotation
Style
Fantasy
Slang (diction)
35. 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
Parody
Conjunction
Syntax
Enjambment
36. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Biography
Frame tale
Archaic (diction)
Jargon (diction)
37. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Meter
Repetition
Narration
38. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Analogy
End rhyme
Clause
Romance
39. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Antagonist
Anapestic Meter
Noun
40. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Ballad
Trochaic (foot)
Alliteration
Connotation
41. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Syntax
Camera view
Novel
Malapropism
42. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Hyperbole
Adjective
Hubris
Personification
43. 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
Denotation
Western
Phonetics
44. 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
Alliteration
Slang (diction)
Satire
45. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch
Anapestic
Folktale
Limited omniscient
Existentialism
46. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
etymology
Antagonist
Aphorism
Mystery
47. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Phonetics
Euphemism
Aphorism
48. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Characterization
dramatic irony
Colloquialisms (diction)
Assonance
49. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Biography
Stanza
Short story
50. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Fable
4 sentence types
Narration
Autobiography