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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. The study of the meaning in language.
Foreshadowing
Meter
Internal rhyme
Semantics
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.
Stanza
Novel
Character
Science fiction
3. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Antagonist
Metaphor
Satire
situation irony
4. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Limerick
Colloquialisms (diction)
Tragedy
5. 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.
Conjunction
Meter
Genre
Antagonist
6. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Transcendentalism
Euphemism
Irony
Document (letter - diary - journal)
7. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Archaic (diction)
Double speak
Pronoun
8. A person or being in a narrative
Fairy Tale
Character
Denouement
Setting
9. The study of the orgin of words
Tragedy
Preposition
Sonnet
etymology
10. 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
Tone
verbal irony
Apostrophe
Anapestic
11. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Fantasy
Participle
Frame tale
Refrain
12. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
dramatic irony
Tone
Denouement
Double speak
13. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Novella
Clause
Caesura
dramatic irony
14. 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
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Novel
Voice
Historical fiction
15. 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.
Malapropism
Refrain
Mystery
Camera view
16. 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
Trochaic (foot)
Stanza
Euphemism
Plot
17. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Alliteration
Flashback
Jargon (diction)
18. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Hyperbole
Participle
Limerick
Denouement
19. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Narration
Anapestic Meter
Horror
Metaphor
20. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Novella
Anapestic
Ballad
21. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Point of View
Paradox
Pronoun
Imagery
22. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Fairy Tale
Morphology
Preposition
23. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Folktale
Double speak
Hyperbole
24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Characterization
Assonance
Internal rhyme
25. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Lyric
Cliche
Voice
Autobiography
26. 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
Denouement
Paradox
Short story
Ambiguity
27. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Plot
Ballad
verbal irony
Colloquialisms (diction)
28. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Verse
Conflict
Euphemism
Phrase
29. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Character
Flashback
Pronoun
Onomatopoeia
30. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Tragedy
Holistic Scoring
Ballad
Enjambment
31. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Iambic (foot)
etymology
Repetition
32. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Foreshadowing
Plot
etymology
Simile
33. U U '
Anapestic
Preposition
Free verse
Apostrophe
34. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Euphemism
Limerick
Vulgarity
Science fiction
35. 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.
Novel
Noun
Pronoun
Iambic (foot)
36. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Autobiography
etymology
Biography
Limited omniscient
37. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Hyperbole
Personification
Science fiction
Short story
38. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Sonnet
Third Person
Clause
Anapestic Meter
39. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Autobiography
Conflict
Trochaic (foot)
40. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Refrain
Connotation
Moral
41. The telling of a story.
Narration
Jargon (diction)
Vulgarity
Phonology
42. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Parody
Style
Flashback
Malapropism
43. 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.
Conjunction
Adjective
End rhyme
Adverb
44. The study of the structure of words.
Simile
Conjunction
situation irony
Morphology
45. The main section of a long poem.
4 sentence types
Dialect
Canto
Internal rhyme
46. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Meter
Dialect (diction)
Internal rhyme
Pragmatics
47. 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
Morphology
Participle
Camera view
Legend
48. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Narration
Dialect (diction)
49. 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.
Participle
Clause
Stanza
Preposition
50. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Setting
Euphemism
Phonetics
Diction