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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A person or being in a narrative
Historical fiction
End rhyme
Character
Paradox
2. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Denotation
End rhyme
Foot
dramatic irony
3. 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
Iambic (foot)
Repetition
Irony
4. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Narration
Malapropism
Existentialism
Double speak
5. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Rhetoric
Science fiction
Phonetics
6. Persuasive writing.
verbal irony
Moral
Rhetoric
Dialect (diction)
7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Essay
Internal rhyme
Free verse
Short story
8. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Horror
Autobiography
Tone
9. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Iambic (foot)
Personification
Diction
Pronoun
10. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Participle
Phonetics
Imagery
Clause
11. The writer says one thing and means another
Jargon
Semantics
Characterization
verbal irony
12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Refrain
Semantics
Lyric
Narrative Point of View
13. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Legend
Sonnet
Slang (diction)
Moral
14. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Free verse
Aphorism
situation irony
Tragedy
15. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Fable
Rhythm
Paradox
Anapestic Meter
16. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Satire
Jargon
Onomatopoeia
Refrain
17. The telling of a story.
Narration
Denouement
Essay
Conjunction
18. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes
situation irony
Antagonist
Enjambment
Essay
19. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Tone
Anecdote
Iambic (foot)
Antagonist
20. The perspective from which a story is told.
Heroic couplet
End rhyme
Essay
Point of View
21. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Anapestic Meter
Flashback
Noun
Conflict
22. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Flashback
Slang (diction)
Article
Symbol
23. 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
Onomatopoeia
Paradox
Dialect
24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Aphorism
Novel
Satire
25. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Folktale
Satire
Phonetics
Denouement
26. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Rhetoric
Parody
Ballad
Third Person
27. 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.
Morphology
Limerick
Double speak
Rhythm
28. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Omniscient
Limerick
Meter
End rhyme
29. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Point of View
Allegory
Oxymoron
Couplet
30. 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
Epic
Foot
Transcendentalism
dramatic irony
31. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Apostrophe
Western
Iambic (foot)
32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Rhetoric
Allegory
Connotation
33. 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.
Caesura
Mystery
Antagonist
verbal irony
34. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Fantasy
Dialect
Simile
Fable
35. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Antagonist
Tone
Conflict
Characterization
36. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Internal rhyme
Apostrophe
Simile
Participle
37. 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.
Canto
Apostrophe
Horror
Allegory
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.'
Vulgarity
Novel
Essay
Elegy
39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Autobiography
Fairy Tale
Voice
Morphology
40. 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 .
Imagery
Caesura
Allegory
Preposition
41. 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.
Folktale
Conjunction
Style
Haiku
42. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Metaphor
Adjective
Document (letter - diary - journal)
situation irony
43. U '
Phonetics
4 sentence types
Iambic (foot)
Moral
44. 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.
Short story
Hyperbole
Setting
Iambic (foot)
45. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Character
Parody
Article
46. 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.
Adjective
Ballad
Setting
Historical fiction
47. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Epic
Euphemism
Verse
Aphorism
48. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Point of View
Voice
Autobiography
Anapestic Meter
49. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Setting
Personification
Analogy
Protagonist
50. U U '
Tragedy
Anapestic
Foreshadowing
Character
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