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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Pronoun
Transcendentalism
Holistic Scoring
Frame tale
2. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Ballad
Phonology
Trochaic (foot)
3. 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.
Genre
Adverb
Semantics
Dialect
4. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Essay
Iambic (foot)
Dialect
Western
5. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Adjective
Genre
Morphology
6. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
End rhyme
Epic
Meter
Dactylic
7. The telling of a story.
Conjunction
dramatic irony
Tone
Narration
8. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
4 sentence types
Double speak
Short story
Characterization
9. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Foot
Limerick
Symbol
10. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Adverb
Caesura
Malapropism
Profanity (diction)
11. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Dactylic
Onomatopoeia
Paradox
Connosance
12. 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
Verb
Character
Free verse
13. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Elegy
Oxymoron
Horror
Dactylic
14. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Short story
Horror
Mystery
15. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Enjambment
Dialect
Anecdote
Archaic (diction)
16. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Aphorism
Colloquialisms (diction)
Novella
Vulgarity
17. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Fairy Tale
Ambiguity
Slang (diction)
Participle
18. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Connotation
Tragedy
Biography
Folktale
19. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Tragedy
Simile
Dialect
20. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Limerick
Verb
Onomatopoeia
21. 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.
Rhetoric
Preposition
Morphology
Mystery
22. 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
Camera view
Setting
Science fiction
23. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Myth
Denouement
Preposition
24. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Anecdote
Fantasy
Adverb
25. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Allusion
etymology
Third Person
Phonology
26. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Verb
Mood
Preposition
Onomatopoeia
27. 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.
Connosance
Imagery
Setting
Science fiction
28. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Rhetoric
Science fiction
Anecdote
29. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Characterization
Rhetoric
Satire
Antagonist
30. 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
Narration
Apostrophe
verbal irony
Legend
31. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Cliche
Mystery
Tone
Science fiction
32. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Romance
Simile
Style
Euphemism
33. ' U U
Vulgarity
Pragmatics
Dactylic
Hubris
34. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Rhythm
Metaphor
Iambic (foot)
Antagonist
35. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Dialect
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Omniscient
Refrain
36. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
verbal irony
Dialect
Rhythm
Foreshadowing
37. 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.
Trochaic (foot)
Allusion
Jargon (diction)
Anapestic Meter
38. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Characterization
Paradox
Article
Diction
39. 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
Verse
Allusion
Heroic couplet
40. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Apostrophe
End rhyme
Dialect
Allegory
41. 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
Fantasy
Lyric
Fable
Document (letter - diary - journal)
42. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
Trochaic (foot)
Style
Adjective
43. 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.
Romance
Participle
End rhyme
Horror
44. 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.
Noun
Pronoun
Haiku
Syntax
45. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Euphemism
Pragmatics
Blank verse
Character
46. U '
Elegy
Character
Couplet
Iambic (foot)
47. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Folktale
Denotation
Elegy
48. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Myth
Dialect (diction)
Simile
Trochaic (foot)
49. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Meter
Novel
Romance
50. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Parody
Pragmatics
Allusion
Lyric
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