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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. 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
Caesura
Existentialism
Frame tale
Mystery
2. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Satire
Moral
Camera view
Stanza
3. 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.
Irony
Jargon (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Legend
4. 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
Folktale
Apostrophe
Novel
Meter
5. ' U
Antagonist
Trochaic (foot)
Participle
Adverb
6. 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.
Camera view
Aphorism
Limerick
Connosance
7. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Dialect
Iambic (foot)
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
8. 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
Short story
Mood
Character
etymology
9. 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
Legend
Fantasy
Semantics
Syntax
10. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
dramatic irony
Denouement
Ambiguity
Foot
11. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Protagonist
Onomatopoeia
situation irony
Syntax
12. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Rhetoric
Conjunction
First Person
Denotation
13. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Limited omniscient
Fairy Tale
verbal irony
Holistic Scoring
14. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
situation irony
Anapestic
Free verse
Syntax
15. A person's account of his or hew own life.
verbal irony
Anecdote
Western
Autobiography
16. 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.'
etymology
Elegy
Haiku
Third Person
17. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Autobiography
Double speak
Diction
Repetition
18. The telling of a story.
Camera view
Characterization
etymology
Narration
19. A wise saying - usually short and written.
End rhyme
Ambiguity
Verb
Aphorism
20. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Autobiography
Sonnet
Limited omniscient
Epic
21. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Profanity (diction)
Historical fiction
Romance
22. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Couplet
Biography
Denotation
Alliteration
23. U U '
Anapestic
Paradox
Jargon
Malapropism
24. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Myth
Narration
Canto
25. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Blank verse
Euphemism
Protagonist
Repetition
26. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Jargon
Transcendentalism
Foot
Internal rhyme
27. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Metaphor
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
Lyric
28. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Hubris
Transcendentalism
Myth
29. The perspective from which a story is told.
Style
Frame tale
Point of View
Euphemism
30. 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
Mystery
Historical fiction
Foreshadowing
31. 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
Fantasy
Dialect (diction)
Syntax
Legend
32. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Couplet
Ambiguity
Transcendentalism
33. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Blank verse
Denotation
Omniscient
Verse
34. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Imagery
Transcendentalism
Novella
Colloquialisms (diction)
35. The study of the meaning in language.
Alliteration
Phonetics
Semantics
Antagonist
36. The study of the structure of words.
Imagery
Fable
Morphology
Aphorism
37. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Mystery
Voice
Ballad
Conflict
38. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Free verse
Satire
Legend
Anecdote
39. 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 .
Caesura
Phonology
Moral
Novella
40. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Short story
Euphemism
Anecdote
41. 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 -
Antagonist
Transcendentalism
Omniscient
Novella
42. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Trochaic (foot)
Omniscient
Enjambment
Meter
43. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Limerick
Tragedy
Article
Anecdote
44. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Anecdote
Novel
Connotation
45. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.
Enjambment
Haiku
Characterization
Myth
46. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Euphemism
Parody
Rhetoric
Phonology
47. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Setting
Article
Fable
Dialect
48. 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.
Autobiography
Myth
Existentialism
Malapropism
49. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Paradox
Connotation
Stanza
Pragmatics
50. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
First Person
Phrase
Preposition
Free verse