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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 short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Diction
Novella
Stanza
Setting
2. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Pronoun
Clause
Tragedy
Voice
3. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Limerick
Alliteration
etymology
4. 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
Euphemism
Anapestic
Cliche
Novella
5. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Morphology
Colloquialisms (diction)
Couplet
Satire
6. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Enjambment
Folktale
Diction
Denouement
7. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Moral
Noun
Limited omniscient
Assonance
8. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Slang (diction)
Refrain
Myth
Onomatopoeia
9. 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
Dialect
Essay
Narration
Trochaic (foot)
10. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Folktale
Connosance
Novella
11. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Imagery
Dialect
Meter
Plot
12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Characterization
Setting
Simile
Lyric
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.
Conflict
Phonetics
Pronoun
Vulgarity
14. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Dialect (diction)
verbal irony
Diction
Pronoun
15. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Conflict
Alliteration
Third Person
Malapropism
16. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Denouement
First Person
Third Person
Rhythm
17. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Legend
Conjunction
Denotation
Simile
18. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Flashback
Style
Article
Narration
19. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Protagonist
Omniscient
Phonetics
Allusion
20. 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.
Foreshadowing
Character
Adverb
Point of View
21. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Omniscient
Phonology
Simile
Irony
22. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Apostrophe
Adjective
Preposition
23. 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
Malapropism
Rhetoric
Genre
Western
24. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Voice
Verse
Anecdote
Style
25. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Moral
Frame tale
Blank verse
Voice
26. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Hubris
Moral
dramatic irony
27. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Blank verse
Vulgarity
Existentialism
Satire
28. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Sonnet
Biography
Fantasy
Romance
29. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
dramatic irony
Refrain
Foot
4 sentence types
30. 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.
Participle
Aphorism
Camera view
Folktale
31. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Haiku
Imagery
First Person
Paradox
32. 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.
Myth
Camera view
Moral
Tragedy
33. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Rhythm
Oxymoron
Parody
Characterization
34. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Alliteration
Dactylic
Clause
35. The telling of a story.
Rhetoric
Historical fiction
Narration
Canto
36. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Novella
Oxymoron
Dialect (diction)
4 sentence types
37. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Dialect (diction)
Genre
Couplet
38. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Narrative Point of View
Paradox
Dactylic
Short story
39. 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.
Caesura
Setting
Anapestic Meter
Autobiography
40. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Iambic (foot)
Assonance
Biography
verbal irony
41. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Anapestic
Adjective
Parody
Colloquialisms (diction)
42. 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.
Short story
Phonetics
Science fiction
Syntax
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.
Anapestic Meter
Assonance
Fable
Foot
44. The writer says one thing and means another
Moral
Verb
Folktale
verbal irony
45. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Dialect (diction)
Parody
Connotation
Limited omniscient
46. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Tragedy
Connotation
Adjective
Colloquialisms (diction)
47. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Participle
Antagonist
Jargon (diction)
Morphology
48. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Ambiguity
Internal rhyme
Parody
49. The main section of a long poem.
Folktale
Foreshadowing
Canto
Irony
50. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Ambiguity
Metaphor
Morphology
Participle