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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Mystery
Diction
Phrase
Syntax
2. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Conflict
Myth
Oxymoron
3. 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.
Euphemism
Autobiography
Tone
Pronoun
4. 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
Science fiction
Western
Omniscient
Paradox
5. 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
Foot
Essay
Conflict
Transcendentalism
6. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Assonance
Denouement
Jargon
Mood
7. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Simile
Fairy Tale
Assonance
Verb
8. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Horror
Archaic (diction)
Participle
Document (letter - diary - journal)
9. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Trochaic (foot)
Ambiguity
Irony
10. 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
Apostrophe
Onomatopoeia
Frame tale
Folktale
11. The perspective from which a story is told.
First Person
Point of View
Slang (diction)
Transcendentalism
12. 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
Genre
Transcendentalism
Camera view
Legend
13. ' U
Repetition
Trochaic (foot)
Morphology
Narrative Point of View
14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Internal rhyme
Archaic (diction)
Point of View
Hubris
15. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Phonetics
Haiku
Fable
Autobiography
16. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Morphology
Limited omniscient
Connotation
Epic
17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Haiku
Science fiction
Satire
Moral
18. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Fairy Tale
Assonance
Lyric
19. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Connosance
dramatic irony
Euphemism
Heroic couplet
20. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Imagery
Anecdote
Noun
21. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Irony
Cliche
Short story
Morphology
22. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Adjective
Protagonist
Antagonist
23. 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
Point of View
Phrase
Frame tale
Denotation
24. 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.
Allusion
Dialect
Denotation
Adverb
25. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Denotation
Semantics
Trochaic (foot)
26. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Denotation
Third Person
Antagonist
Jargon (diction)
27. 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
Essay
Anapestic
Historical fiction
Holistic Scoring
28. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Double speak
Allusion
Onomatopoeia
Trochaic (foot)
29. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Jargon
Profanity (diction)
Connosance
Trochaic (foot)
30. 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
Ballad
Enjambment
Apostrophe
Assonance
31. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Elegy
Cliche
Ballad
Novel
32. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Lyric
Novel
Repetition
Existentialism
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Voice
4 sentence types
Existentialism
Meter
34. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Hyperbole
Tone
Satire
Iambic (foot)
35. The study of the structure of words.
Article
Morphology
Mystery
Adverb
36. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Iambic (foot)
Mood
Onomatopoeia
Transcendentalism
37. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Plot
Frame tale
Dactylic
38. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Limited omniscient
Alliteration
Pragmatics
Omniscient
39. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Irony
Hubris
Metaphor
Epic
40. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Diction
Symbol
Jargon
Imagery
41. 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
Anapestic Meter
Allegory
Stanza
42. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Fantasy
Aphorism
Transcendentalism
Caesura
43. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Elegy
Fantasy
Anapestic
situation irony
44. 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
Fantasy
Onomatopoeia
Ambiguity
Epic
45. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Jargon
Enjambment
Narration
Oxymoron
46. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Jargon (diction)
Assonance
Imagery
verbal irony
47. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Vulgarity
Genre
Article
Limited omniscient
48. 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
Ambiguity
Western
4 sentence types
49. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Preposition
Foreshadowing
Slang (diction)
50. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Iambic (foot)
Oxymoron
Flashback
Setting
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