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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Adjective
Setting
Existentialism
2. 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.
Slang (diction)
Dialect
Myth
Euphemism
3. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Double speak
Parody
Narrative Point of View
4. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Verse
verbal irony
Biography
5. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
situation irony
Plot
Omniscient
Anecdote
6. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Point of View
Setting
Ambiguity
situation irony
7. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Free verse
Irony
Jargon
Simile
8. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Flashback
Denouement
Archaic (diction)
Foreshadowing
9. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Voice
Foot
Haiku
Imagery
10. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Flashback
Sonnet
Autobiography
11. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
verbal irony
Omniscient
Antagonist
Elegy
12. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Camera view
Setting
Foot
Horror
13. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Hubris
Mood
Novel
Lyric
14. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Syntax
First Person
Trochaic (foot)
15. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Article
Meter
Euphemism
16. 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.
Science fiction
Free verse
Aphorism
Conjunction
17. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Antagonist
Vulgarity
Meter
18. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Jargon
Historical fiction
Repetition
Analogy
19. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Point of View
Novel
Clause
Satire
20. 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.
Horror
Article
Colloquialisms (diction)
Existentialism
21. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Essay
Jargon (diction)
Blank verse
Colloquialisms (diction)
22. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
4 sentence types
Refrain
Plot
Alliteration
23. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Horror
Novella
Jargon (diction)
Character
24. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Clause
Free verse
Mood
Semantics
25. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Morphology
Aphorism
Diction
Oxymoron
26. 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.
Novel
Morphology
Tragedy
Fable
27. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Trochaic (foot)
Conflict
Myth
Onomatopoeia
28. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Symbol
Fantasy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Ambiguity
29. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Jargon
Protagonist
Connosance
30. 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
Phonetics
Adverb
Fantasy
31. The study of the structure of sentences.
Double speak
Fable
Style
Syntax
32. 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
Rhetoric
Setting
Novella
33. 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.
Article
Third Person
Pronoun
Moral
34. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Conflict
Elegy
Verse
Short story
35. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Western
Setting
Phrase
36. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Personification
Horror
Allusion
37. 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.
Profanity (diction)
Short story
Stanza
Haiku
38. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Historical fiction
Slang (diction)
Denotation
Transcendentalism
39. 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
Biography
Slang (diction)
Symbol
40. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Existentialism
Hyperbole
Blank verse
Article
41. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Profanity (diction)
Legend
Double speak
Heroic couplet
42. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Phonology
Canto
Blank verse
Parody
43. 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
Irony
Clause
Phonology
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Dactylic
Iambic (foot)
Assonance
Antagonist
45. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Flashback
Colloquialisms (diction)
End rhyme
Ambiguity
46. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Refrain
Mood
Autobiography
Voice
47. 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
Ambiguity
Enjambment
Euphemism
Mystery
48. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Blank verse
Double speak
Genre
Novella
49. 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
Anecdote
Heroic couplet
Connotation
Fantasy
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Trochaic (foot)
Anecdote
Setting
Foreshadowing
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