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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Repetition
Meter
Stanza
Colloquialisms (diction)
2. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Lyric
End rhyme
Vulgarity
Moral
3. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Oxymoron
Malapropism
Participle
Heroic couplet
4. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Moral
Conflict
Lyric
Internal rhyme
5. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Mood
Internal rhyme
Science fiction
Tone
6. 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
Pragmatics
Verb
Oxymoron
Sonnet
7. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Trochaic (foot)
Setting
Foreshadowing
8. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Diction
Couplet
Narrative Point of View
Caesura
9. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Mood
Caesura
Anapestic Meter
Historical fiction
10. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
Phonetics
Dialect (diction)
11. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Refrain
dramatic irony
Imagery
Couplet
12. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Tragedy
Clause
Satire
Adverb
13. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
etymology
Short story
Phonology
14. 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.
Hyperbole
Semantics
Pronoun
Fable
15. A person or being in a narrative
Denouement
Transcendentalism
Verse
Character
16. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Noun
Flashback
Novel
Horror
17. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Myth
Tragedy
Couplet
Meter
18. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Fable
Conjunction
Heroic couplet
19. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Genre
Apostrophe
20. 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.
Folktale
Irony
Rhetoric
Syntax
21. ' U U
Connotation
Dactylic
Tragedy
Connosance
22. 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.
Point of View
Internal rhyme
Character
Conjunction
23. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Foot
Parody
Blank verse
4 sentence types
24. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Jargon
Free verse
Lyric
Voice
25. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Foreshadowing
Phonology
Conflict
26. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Tone
Rhetoric
Elegy
27. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Lyric
Legend
Epic
Allusion
28. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Frame tale
Narration
Moral
Connosance
29. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Dactylic
First Person
Horror
Article
30. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
End rhyme
Jargon (diction)
Euphemism
Symbol
31. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Science fiction
Genre
Rhythm
Couplet
32. 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.
Vulgarity
Hyperbole
Enjambment
Irony
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Irony
Cliche
Trochaic (foot)
4 sentence types
34. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Allusion
Essay
Profanity (diction)
Haiku
35. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Apostrophe
Romance
Autobiography
Omniscient
36. 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
Voice
Alliteration
Dialect
Epic
37. 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
Morphology
Foot
Romance
Verse
38. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Profanity (diction)
Repetition
Assonance
Narrative Point of View
39. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Voice
Participle
Characterization
40. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Holistic Scoring
Clause
Plot
Biography
41. U U '
etymology
Heroic couplet
Cliche
Anapestic
42. U '
Denouement
Iambic (foot)
Plot
Repetition
43. The writer says one thing and means another
situation irony
Conjunction
verbal irony
Third Person
44. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Moral
Irony
Point of View
45. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Dialect (diction)
Repetition
Verse
Caesura
46. 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
Narrative Point of View
Western
Ballad
Camera view
47. 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.
Existentialism
Dactylic
Irony
Protagonist
48. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Characterization
Denotation
Fable
Refrain
49. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
etymology
dramatic irony
Setting
50. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Dialect
Dactylic
Jargon
Autobiography
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