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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Fable
Analogy
Oxymoron
Denouement
2. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Hubris
Biography
Romance
Archaic (diction)
3. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Dactylic
Mood
Couplet
Caesura
4. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Canto
Narrative Point of View
Denouement
Vulgarity
5. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Hubris
Transcendentalism
Vulgarity
6. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Metaphor
Stanza
Phonology
7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Mystery
Pragmatics
Autobiography
8. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Dialect
Verse
Moral
Mood
9. 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.
Syntax
Novel
Ambiguity
Preposition
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
Cliche
Anapestic Meter
Character
Folktale
11. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Omniscient
Internal rhyme
Slang (diction)
Repetition
12. The study of the structure of words.
Camera view
etymology
Morphology
Historical fiction
13. 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
Existentialism
Dactylic
Parody
Short story
14. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Limerick
Hyperbole
Verse
15. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Biography
Pragmatics
Imagery
16. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Limerick
situation irony
Narration
Profanity (diction)
17. 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
dramatic irony
Foot
Semantics
Parody
18. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Anapestic Meter
Internal rhyme
Clause
19. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Phrase
Refrain
Flashback
Romance
20. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Phonology
Narration
Denouement
21. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Paradox
situation irony
Hubris
22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Dialect
Lyric
Camera view
Jargon (diction)
23. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Article
Heroic couplet
Clause
Slang (diction)
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.
Existentialism
Noun
Epic
Foot
25. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Slang (diction)
Existentialism
Free verse
Sonnet
26. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Canto
Style
Profanity (diction)
27. The writer says one thing and means another
Narration
verbal irony
Setting
Irony
28. The main character or hero of a written work.
Limited omniscient
Horror
First Person
Protagonist
29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Tragedy
Blank verse
Novel
Hyperbole
30. 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
Third Person
Western
Camera view
Verb
31. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Western
Couplet
Setting
Jargon (diction)
32. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Voice
etymology
Phonology
Horror
33. 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
Fantasy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Apostrophe
Couplet
34. 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
Satire
Science fiction
Myth
35. 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.
Mystery
Allusion
Sonnet
Caesura
36. 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
Novel
Essay
Alliteration
Connosance
37. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Historical fiction
Characterization
Alliteration
Myth
38. 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
Paradox
4 sentence types
Plot
39. 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
Aphorism
Moral
Satire
Epic
40. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Tone
Phonology
Rhythm
Allegory
41. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Heroic couplet
Rhetoric
Omniscient
Satire
42. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Folktale
Novella
Novel
Flashback
43. 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 -
Article
Jargon (diction)
situation irony
Transcendentalism
44. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Anapestic Meter
Metaphor
Plot
Fable
45. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Adverb
Style
Article
Personification
46. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Moral
Omniscient
situation irony
Cliche
47. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Denouement
Enjambment
Ambiguity
Foreshadowing
48. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Denotation
Phonetics
Novel
Euphemism
49. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Symbol
Connosance
Assonance
Hubris
50. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Couplet
Foot
Assonance
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