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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Simile
Verse
Anecdote
Aphorism
2. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Western
Characterization
Genre
Character
3. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Rhetoric
Onomatopoeia
Legend
Alliteration
4. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Conjunction
Euphemism
Pragmatics
Denouement
5. 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.
Free verse
Pronoun
Alliteration
Tone
6. 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
Semantics
Western
End rhyme
Tone
7. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Setting
Oxymoron
Profanity (diction)
Limerick
8. 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
Frame tale
Phrase
Mystery
Hubris
9. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Profanity (diction)
Personification
Mystery
10. 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
4 sentence types
Connotation
Protagonist
11. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Diction
Slang (diction)
Pronoun
Narrative Point of View
12. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Camera view
Elegy
Legend
13. 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
Euphemism
Dialect (diction)
Adverb
14. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Setting
Ballad
Satire
Ambiguity
15. Persuasive writing.
Haiku
Rhetoric
Analogy
Connosance
16. 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
Adjective
Setting
Cliche
17. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Trochaic (foot)
Antagonist
Double speak
Oxymoron
18. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Internal rhyme
Alliteration
Dialect
Profanity (diction)
19. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Fairy Tale
Imagery
Essay
Cliche
20. 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
Narrative Point of View
Syntax
Short story
Character
21. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Autobiography
Parody
Pragmatics
Character
22. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Adjective
Assonance
Narrative Point of View
Jargon (diction)
23. 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
Preposition
Morphology
Folktale
Fantasy
24. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Mystery
etymology
Onomatopoeia
Parody
25. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Characterization
Imagery
Hubris
Meter
26. 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.
Myth
Elegy
Third Person
Preposition
27. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Colloquialisms (diction)
Jargon
situation irony
Slang (diction)
28. 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
Transcendentalism
Noun
Paradox
29. 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.
Double speak
Tone
Irony
Rhetoric
30. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Conflict
Parody
Voice
Phrase
31. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Existentialism
Jargon
Fable
Fairy Tale
32. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Rhetoric
etymology
Noun
33. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Archaic (diction)
Tone
End rhyme
Style
34. ' U
Oxymoron
Trochaic (foot)
Cliche
Narrative Point of View
35. 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.
Myth
Cliche
Stanza
Dialect
36. 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.
Historical fiction
Rhetoric
Science fiction
Profanity (diction)
37. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Parody
Blank verse
Rhetoric
Camera view
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
Euphemism
Lyric
Iambic (foot)
39. The main section of a long poem.
Preposition
Autobiography
Canto
Dialect
40. 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
Apostrophe
Euphemism
Antagonist
Legend
41. 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.
Profanity (diction)
Trochaic (foot)
Assonance
Adjective
42. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
First Person
Noun
Simile
Dialect (diction)
43. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Rhythm
Phonetics
Denouement
Alliteration
44. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Verb
Narrative Point of View
Conflict
45. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Paradox
Enjambment
Epic
Lyric
46. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Historical fiction
Vulgarity
Antagonist
Pragmatics
47. 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 -
Transcendentalism
Novella
Character
Free verse
48. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Tone
End rhyme
Refrain
Narration
49. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Protagonist
Anapestic
Adverb
50. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Vulgarity
Clause
Autobiography
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