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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. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Pragmatics
Horror
Anecdote
Hubris
2. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Archaic (diction)
Setting
Adjective
Imagery
3. 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
Pronoun
Legend
Verse
Repetition
4. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Conflict
Profanity (diction)
Personification
Novella
5. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Dialect
Aphorism
Biography
6. 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
Enjambment
Apostrophe
Fantasy
Mystery
7. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Personification
Antagonist
Elegy
Essay
8. 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
Science fiction
Dialect
Epic
Dialect (diction)
9. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Conflict
Characterization
Double speak
Assonance
10. 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.
Euphemism
Repetition
Camera view
Sonnet
11. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.
Irony
Short story
Plot
Haiku
12. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Plot
dramatic irony
Adjective
Tone
13. The study of the structure of sentences.
Protagonist
Repetition
Adjective
Syntax
14. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Connotation
Rhythm
Mood
15. 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
Dialect
Hubris
Frame tale
Short story
16. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Antagonist
Colloquialisms (diction)
Malapropism
Symbol
17. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Horror
Profanity (diction)
Diction
18. 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
Tragedy
Analogy
Hubris
Folktale
19. The main character or hero of a written work.
Biography
Simile
Protagonist
Syntax
20. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Flashback
Heroic couplet
Irony
Horror
21. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Hubris
Sonnet
Repetition
Antagonist
22. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
dramatic irony
Blank verse
Transcendentalism
Antagonist
23. 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
Western
Romance
Symbol
Fantasy
24. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Anapestic
Archaic (diction)
Limited omniscient
Characterization
25. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Pragmatics
Dialect
Aphorism
Setting
26. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Verse
Mood
Foreshadowing
Phonetics
27. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.
Preposition
Slang (diction)
verbal irony
Characterization
28. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Allegory
Morphology
Romance
Free verse
29. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Jargon
Aphorism
Adjective
Limerick
30. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Preposition
End rhyme
Denouement
Morphology
31. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Mood
Jargon
Setting
Short story
32. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Folktale
Blank verse
Allusion
33. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Stanza
Blank verse
Narration
Euphemism
34. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Conjunction
Article
Allegory
35. The perspective from which a story is told.
Refrain
Point of View
Antagonist
Moral
36. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Omniscient
Elegy
First Person
Connotation
37. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Canto
Third Person
Repetition
Novel
38. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Hubris
Aphorism
Historical fiction
Ballad
39. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Analogy
Romance
Euphemism
Paradox
40. The study of the meaning in language.
Archaic (diction)
Semantics
Short story
Dialect
41. The main section of a long poem.
Holistic Scoring
Canto
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Pragmatics
42. ' U U
dramatic irony
Stanza
Verb
Dactylic
43. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Frame tale
Dialect (diction)
Mood
Omniscient
44. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Morphology
Character
Refrain
Genre
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.
First Person
Legend
Dialect (diction)
Pronoun
46. 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 .
Slang (diction)
First Person
Caesura
Ballad
47. U '
Elegy
Iambic (foot)
Syntax
Caesura
48. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Verb
Plot
Paradox
49. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Sonnet
Apostrophe
Alliteration
Free verse
50. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Characterization
Refrain
Short story