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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. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Personification
Adjective
dramatic irony
Connosance
2. 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.
Iambic (foot)
Cliche
Voice
Haiku
3. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Style
Clause
Pronoun
4. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Third Person
Dialect
Diction
5. A person or being in a narrative
Tone
Preposition
Hubris
Character
6. 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
Jargon
Phonology
Profanity (diction)
7. 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.
Setting
Slang (diction)
Apostrophe
Fable
8. 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
Folktale
Apostrophe
Archaic (diction)
Historical fiction
9. 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
Apostrophe
Novel
Ballad
Antagonist
10. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Euphemism
Adjective
Novel
11. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhetoric
Holistic Scoring
Rhythm
Couplet
12. 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
Adverb
Verb
End rhyme
13. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Vulgarity
Archaic (diction)
Phrase
Third Person
14. 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.
Connotation
Preposition
Iambic (foot)
Conjunction
15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Apostrophe
Phonology
Couplet
Denouement
16. The main character or hero of a written work.
Science fiction
Fable
Rhetoric
Protagonist
17. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Vulgarity
Limited omniscient
dramatic irony
Metaphor
18. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
situation irony
Omniscient
Caesura
Pragmatics
19. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Allegory
Jargon
Tragedy
Romance
20. ' U
Analogy
Jargon (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Aphorism
21. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Style
Phrase
Noun
Narrative Point of View
22. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Jargon
Connotation
Antagonist
Trochaic (foot)
23. The perspective from which a story is told.
Novella
Vulgarity
Conflict
Point of View
24. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.
Irony
verbal irony
Existentialism
Euphemism
25. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Hubris
Free verse
Lyric
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.
Genre
Sonnet
Diction
Adverb
27. 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.
Iambic (foot)
Mystery
Autobiography
Trochaic (foot)
28. The study of the orgin of words
Clause
Enjambment
Symbol
etymology
29. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Limerick
Refrain
Pragmatics
situation irony
30. 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
Plot
Novel
Hyperbole
Document (letter - diary - journal)
31. 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.
Oxymoron
Refrain
Science fiction
Western
32. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Hubris
Verb
Ambiguity
Fairy Tale
33. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Flashback
Narrative Point of View
Satire
Phonology
34. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Connosance
Western
Dialect
Flashback
35. 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
dramatic irony
Transcendentalism
Essay
Limited omniscient
36. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Third Person
Science fiction
Euphemism
Mystery
37. 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.
Phonology
Clause
Participle
Camera view
38. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Internal rhyme
Repetition
Science fiction
Novella
39. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Dialect
Characterization
Diction
Parody
40. 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
Rhythm
Existentialism
Epic
Jargon
41. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Connotation
Profanity (diction)
Jargon
Oxymoron
42. 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
Western
Preposition
Antagonist
Short story
43. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Dialect
Jargon
Narration
Colloquialisms (diction)
44. Persuasive writing.
Assonance
Clause
Epic
Rhetoric
45. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Frame tale
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Transcendentalism
46. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Malapropism
Diction
Antagonist
47. The writer says one thing and means another
Slang (diction)
Romance
verbal irony
Dialect
48. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Repetition
Personification
Dialect (diction)
Denouement
49. 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.
Limerick
Fantasy
Mood
Dialect (diction)
50. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Genre
Autobiography
Setting
Fantasy