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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Participle
Dialect
Allusion
Free verse
2. 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
Setting
Narration
Article
3. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
verbal irony
Short story
Participle
4. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Pronoun
Phonology
Science fiction
5. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
End rhyme
Phrase
Morphology
6. The main character or hero of a written work.
Phonology
Protagonist
Euphemism
Myth
7. 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
situation irony
Dialect
Pragmatics
8. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Limited omniscient
Noun
Novella
Verse
9. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Free verse
Anapestic
Style
Slang (diction)
10. 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
Protagonist
Foot
Characterization
Essay
11. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Syntax
4 sentence types
Holistic Scoring
Allegory
12. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Point of View
Paradox
Characterization
Antagonist
13. The writer says one thing and means another
Apostrophe
Foreshadowing
Symbol
verbal irony
14. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Rhetoric
Euphemism
Plot
Parody
15. An extended fictional prose narrative.
etymology
Novel
Characterization
End rhyme
16. U U '
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Genre
Hubris
Anapestic
17. The study of the orgin of words
Meter
Tragedy
Anecdote
etymology
18. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Flashback
Free verse
Apostrophe
Denouement
19. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Adverb
Narration
Participle
Trochaic (foot)
20. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Autobiography
Dactylic
Connosance
Semantics
21. 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.'
Anapestic
Morphology
Elegy
Jargon (diction)
22. 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.
Heroic couplet
Adjective
Limited omniscient
Elegy
23. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Diction
Onomatopoeia
Dialect
Caesura
24. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Assonance
Pragmatics
Repetition
Stanza
25. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Myth
Morphology
Assonance
Verb
26. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Adverb
Voice
Cliche
Connotation
27. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Stanza
etymology
Mood
28. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Moral
Novella
Verse
Protagonist
29. 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
situation irony
End rhyme
Fantasy
Metaphor
30. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Novel
Aphorism
Conflict
Phonology
31. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Anecdote
Autobiography
Romance
Folktale
32. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Characterization
Oxymoron
Connotation
Archaic (diction)
33. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Internal rhyme
Semantics
Setting
situation irony
34. The study of the structure of sentences.
situation irony
Phonology
Syntax
Ballad
35. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Moral
Genre
Novella
Denotation
36. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Pragmatics
Character
Horror
Hubris
37. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Hubris
Limerick
Anecdote
38. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Mystery
Morphology
Flashback
Pragmatics
39. 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.
Preposition
Euphemism
Characterization
Mystery
40. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Ballad
Alliteration
Symbol
41. 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
Diction
Science fiction
Pragmatics
42. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Phrase
Jargon (diction)
Semantics
43. 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.
Personification
Preposition
Euphemism
Alliteration
44. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
First Person
Limited omniscient
dramatic irony
Alliteration
45. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Metaphor
Verse
Cliche
Meter
46. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Limited omniscient
Phrase
Elegy
Camera view
47. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Allegory
Point of View
Antagonist
48. A person or being in a narrative
Narrative Point of View
Metaphor
Character
Foreshadowing
49. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Narration
Tragedy
Hyperbole
Epic
50. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Trochaic (foot)
Characterization
Metaphor