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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Elegy
Anapestic Meter
Ambiguity
2. 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
Romance
Limerick
Fairy Tale
Mood
3. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Parody
Stanza
Dialect
Limited omniscient
4. 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.'
Denouement
Cliche
Elegy
Allusion
5. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Trochaic (foot)
Connotation
Denouement
dramatic irony
6. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Verb
Dialect
Fairy Tale
Novel
7. 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
Meter
Ballad
Euphemism
Legend
8. U U '
Mood
4 sentence types
Hyperbole
Anapestic
9. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Tragedy
Holistic Scoring
Character
Paradox
10. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Verb
Semantics
Phrase
Autobiography
11. The study of the meaning in language.
Profanity (diction)
Double speak
Semantics
Pronoun
12. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
End rhyme
Malapropism
Autobiography
Historical fiction
13. The study of the structure of sentences.
Verb
Syntax
Noun
Adjective
14. 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.
Refrain
Science fiction
Parody
Autobiography
15. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Repetition
Euphemism
Analogy
16. 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.
Elegy
Ballad
Irony
Folktale
17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Moral
Phonetics
Syntax
Setting
18. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Dialect
etymology
Fairy Tale
19. 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.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Phonology
Holistic Scoring
Preposition
20. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Euphemism
Connosance
Verb
Ambiguity
21. 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
Enjambment
Anapestic Meter
Assonance
Euphemism
22. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Jargon (diction)
Preposition
Protagonist
23. 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
Dialect
Dialect
Science fiction
24. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Mood
Existentialism
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Blank verse
Dactylic
Diction
26. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
Canto
Setting
Frame tale
27. 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
Denotation
Apostrophe
Tone
Refrain
28. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
First Person
situation irony
Morphology
Diction
29. 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
Voice
Foot
Verse
Flashback
30. 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
Fairy Tale
verbal irony
dramatic irony
Romance
31. 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.
4 sentence types
Existentialism
Diction
Profanity (diction)
32. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Double speak
Autobiography
Narrative Point of View
Allusion
33. 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.
Irony
Horror
Simile
Jargon
34. 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.
Transcendentalism
Myth
Mystery
Dactylic
35. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Ambiguity
Article
Blank verse
36. 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
Existentialism
Epic
4 sentence types
37. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Fable
Enjambment
Syntax
Science fiction
38. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Horror
Jargon (diction)
Limerick
39. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Personification
Simile
Mood
Assonance
40. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Simile
Voice
Lyric
41. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Historical fiction
Heroic couplet
Assonance
42. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
Flashback
Fairy Tale
Existentialism
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 -
Cliche
Archaic (diction)
Repetition
Transcendentalism
44. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Satire
Rhetoric
Allusion
Protagonist
45. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Satire
Conjunction
Foot
46. 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.
Antagonist
4 sentence types
Iambic (foot)
Pronoun
47. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Symbol
Narration
Limited omniscient
Conjunction
48. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Science fiction
Noun
Symbol
49. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Hubris
Enjambment
Noun
Autobiography
50. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Diction
Fantasy
Syntax