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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Character
verbal irony
Euphemism
Mood
2. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Horror
Epic
Symbol
3. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Ballad
Folktale
Verse
Characterization
4. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Antagonist
Third Person
Diction
Oxymoron
5. 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
Phrase
Allegory
Rhetoric
6. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Symbol
Narrative Point of View
Stanza
Omniscient
7. 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
dramatic irony
Epic
Pronoun
Apostrophe
8. 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
Anapestic
Colloquialisms (diction)
Epic
9. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Antagonist
Irony
Aphorism
End rhyme
10. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Irony
Canto
Connosance
Anapestic Meter
11. 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.
Double speak
Legend
Science fiction
Heroic couplet
12. The writer says one thing and means another
Fantasy
Connotation
Apostrophe
verbal irony
13. 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
Assonance
Frame tale
Hyperbole
Fantasy
14. The perspective from which a story is told.
Sonnet
Hubris
Point of View
Stanza
15. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Romance
Conflict
Connotation
4 sentence types
16. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Pragmatics
Autobiography
Couplet
17. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Narration
Fantasy
Style
Denotation
18. 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.
Horror
Assonance
Transcendentalism
Diction
19. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Phonology
Euphemism
Novel
Autobiography
20. 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
Metaphor
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Narration
Tragedy
21. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Science fiction
Symbol
Ballad
Personification
22. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Conflict
Satire
Alliteration
23. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Tragedy
Autobiography
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Lyric
24. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Legend
Dialect
Folktale
25. 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
Character
Fable
Apostrophe
Internal rhyme
26. 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
Syntax
Science fiction
Phonetics
27. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Horror
Pronoun
Imagery
Connosance
28. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
End rhyme
Clause
Article
Anecdote
29. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
Euphemism
Profanity (diction)
Simile
30. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Vulgarity
Haiku
Antagonist
Camera view
31. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Malapropism
Heroic couplet
Onomatopoeia
Iambic (foot)
32. 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
Preposition
Historical fiction
Setting
Frame tale
33. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Fantasy
Participle
Symbol
Dactylic
34. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.
Antagonist
Heroic couplet
Preposition
Adjective
35. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Existentialism
Enjambment
Colloquialisms (diction)
Characterization
36. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Sonnet
Fable
4 sentence types
etymology
37. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Rhetoric
Stanza
Dialect (diction)
Simile
38. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Noun
Jargon
Historical fiction
Simile
39. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Connosance
Epic
Trochaic (foot)
40. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Folktale
Allegory
Point of View
41. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Dialect
Dactylic
Refrain
42. 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
Noun
Historical fiction
Fable
43. Persuasive writing.
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Diction
Allusion
44. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Conflict
Refrain
Hyperbole
Novella
45. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Elegy
Biography
Participle
4 sentence types
46. 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.
Pragmatics
Cliche
Adjective
Hyperbole
47. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Point of View
Limited omniscient
Tragedy
Alliteration
48. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Allusion
Antagonist
Allegory
Metaphor
49. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Denotation
Diction
Dialect
50. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses
Participle
Tone
Myth
Sonnet