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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Fairy Tale
Anapestic
Simile
2. 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
Essay
Setting
Frame tale
Blank verse
3. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Character
Holistic Scoring
Simile
Repetition
4. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.
Parody
Legend
Mood
Anapestic Meter
5. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
verbal irony
Genre
Personification
Slang (diction)
6. 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.
Hyperbole
Phonology
Verse
Myth
7. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Setting
Slang (diction)
Diction
8. The study of the orgin of words
Personification
Allegory
Imagery
etymology
9. 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.
Cliche
Metaphor
Blank verse
Conjunction
10. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Epic
Profanity (diction)
Denouement
Historical fiction
11. 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
Essay
Jargon
Antagonist
Canto
12. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Conflict
Metaphor
etymology
Tragedy
13. 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 .
Phrase
Caesura
Horror
4 sentence types
14. 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
Sonnet
Myth
Syntax
Trochaic (foot)
15. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Rhetoric
Essay
Biography
Blank verse
16. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Plot
Short story
Ballad
Pragmatics
17. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Fantasy
Simile
Third Person
Denotation
18. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Foot
dramatic irony
Biography
Cliche
19. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Free verse
Clause
Dialect
20. A person or being in a narrative
Refrain
Character
Holistic Scoring
Caesura
21. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Hyperbole
Profanity (diction)
Iambic (foot)
Internal rhyme
22. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Point of View
Adverb
Metaphor
Antagonist
23. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Lyric
Tragedy
Connosance
Dialect
24. 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
Novella
Euphemism
Epic
Double speak
25. 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.
Foreshadowing
Mystery
dramatic irony
Haiku
26. 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
Tragedy
Romance
Antagonist
Legend
27. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Meter
Verse
Aphorism
Imagery
28. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Lyric
Frame tale
Style
Document (letter - diary - journal)
29. 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
Cliche
Limerick
Iambic (foot)
30. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Rhythm
Lyric
Canto
Mood
31. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Free verse
situation irony
Transcendentalism
Article
32. 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
Essay
Rhetoric
Heroic couplet
Fairy Tale
33. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Hyperbole
Slang (diction)
Double speak
Fable
34. 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
Anapestic Meter
Diction
Connosance
Western
35. 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
Folktale
Novel
Tragedy
36. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Haiku
Lyric
Narrative Point of View
etymology
37. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Internal rhyme
Dialect
Tragedy
38. The telling of a story.
Rhythm
Existentialism
Narration
Ambiguity
39. 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
Imagery
Parody
Romance
Tragedy
40. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Paradox
Anecdote
Cliche
Tragedy
41. The main section of a long poem.
Setting
Canto
Free verse
Noun
42. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Limited omniscient
Antagonist
Analogy
43. 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.
Limerick
Rhythm
Dactylic
Tragedy
44. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Symbol
Third Person
Tragedy
45. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Noun
Novel
Anecdote
46. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Tragedy
Phonology
Denouement
Paradox
47. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.
Phrase
Analogy
Elegy
Horror
48. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Adjective
Transcendentalism
Conflict
Autobiography
49. 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.
Myth
Tone
Fantasy
Pronoun
50. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
etymology
Simile
Metaphor
Colloquialisms (diction)