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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. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Fantasy
Character
Romance
2. 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.
Ballad
Onomatopoeia
Science fiction
Limited omniscient
3. 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.
End rhyme
Fairy Tale
Omniscient
Irony
4. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Limerick
Biography
Phonetics
Fable
5. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Lyric
Elegy
Malapropism
Essay
6. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Clause
Style
Stanza
Metaphor
7. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Folktale
Onomatopoeia
Preposition
Moral
8. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Allusion
Refrain
Autobiography
9. 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 .
Metaphor
Simile
Caesura
Foreshadowing
10. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Genre
Metaphor
Anapestic
Profanity (diction)
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.
Tragedy
Adjective
Diction
Flashback
12. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Profanity (diction)
Allegory
Anapestic Meter
Autobiography
13. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Denotation
Mystery
Plot
Hubris
14. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Horror
Elegy
Dialect (diction)
15. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Hubris
Antagonist
Romance
Characterization
16. 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
Biography
Syntax
Anapestic Meter
Legend
17. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Biography
Rhythm
Participle
Conjunction
18. 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
Article
Euphemism
Denouement
Paradox
19. 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.
Hyperbole
Morphology
Parody
Mood
20. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Omniscient
Folktale
Phonology
21. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Aphorism
Jargon (diction)
Parody
Rhythm
22. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Myth
Conflict
Internal rhyme
23. 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.
Hubris
Iambic (foot)
Myth
Point of View
24. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Adverb
Antagonist
verbal irony
Limited omniscient
25. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath
Allusion
Conjunction
Epic
Enjambment
26. The telling of a story.
Slang (diction)
Assonance
Limerick
Narration
27. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Archaic (diction)
Cliche
Assonance
Allusion
28. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Couplet
Omniscient
Hubris
Pragmatics
29. ' U
Tragedy
Lyric
Trochaic (foot)
Analogy
30. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Pragmatics
Colloquialisms (diction)
Diction
Malapropism
31. U '
Iambic (foot)
Phrase
Myth
Protagonist
32. 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
Antagonist
Tone
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Metaphor
33. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Verse
Allegory
Tone
34. Persuasive writing.
etymology
Rhetoric
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Alliteration
35. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Rhythm
Fable
Meter
Ballad
36. 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
Parody
Diction
Fairy Tale
37. U U '
Satire
Adjective
Refrain
Anapestic
38. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Diction
Simile
Lyric
39. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Denotation
Assonance
situation irony
40. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.
Rhetoric
Point of View
Conjunction
Verse
41. 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.
Jargon
Vulgarity
Anapestic Meter
Moral
42. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Characterization
4 sentence types
Conjunction
43. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Onomatopoeia
Participle
Dialect
Jargon
44. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Lyric
etymology
Foreshadowing
Mood
45. 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
Conflict
Enjambment
Romance
Refrain
46. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t
Syntax
Legend
Dialect
Foot
47. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Anapestic Meter
Omniscient
Cliche
Personification
48. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Characterization
Denotation
Limited omniscient
49. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Verb
Limerick
Connotation
Characterization
50. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Parody
Conflict
Noun