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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Trochaic (foot)
Omniscient
Alliteration
Foot
2. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Voice
Archaic (diction)
Frame tale
3. The study of the structure of sentences.
Foot
Aphorism
Syntax
Refrain
4. The telling of a story.
Narration
Omniscient
Morphology
Clause
5. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Narrative Point of View
Antagonist
Cliche
Profanity (diction)
6. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Phonology
Enjambment
Moral
Free verse
7. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Ambiguity
Denouement
Couplet
Plot
8. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Narration
Apostrophe
Phrase
Foreshadowing
9. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Anapestic
etymology
Symbol
Heroic couplet
10. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Tragedy
Dialect
Allegory
11. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Apostrophe
Oxymoron
Rhythm
12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Analogy
Lyric
Article
Existentialism
13. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Romance
Hubris
Foreshadowing
Analogy
14. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Double speak
Onomatopoeia
Holistic Scoring
15. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Camera view
Aphorism
Setting
Horror
16. 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
Narration
Blank verse
Foot
Vulgarity
17. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Western
Setting
Genre
18. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Western
Frame tale
Point of View
Aphorism
19. 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
Frame tale
Western
Euphemism
Pragmatics
20. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Conflict
Fable
Foreshadowing
Antagonist
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.
Mystery
Personification
Allegory
Mood
22. 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.
Pragmatics
Hyperbole
Vulgarity
Foreshadowing
23. 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
Clause
Archaic (diction)
Irony
Sonnet
24. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Archaic (diction)
Pronoun
Denotation
Elegy
25. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Romance
Horror
Canto
26. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Allegory
Repetition
Participle
Assonance
27. U U '
Character
Anapestic
Repetition
Characterization
28. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Epic
Elegy
Anapestic Meter
Jargon
29. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Mood
Essay
Denouement
30. 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
Caesura
Apostrophe
Legend
Folktale
31. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Adverb
Pragmatics
Dactylic
Colloquialisms (diction)
32. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Participle
Horror
Allusion
Western
33. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Assonance
Character
Syntax
34. The study of the orgin of words
Analogy
Myth
Anapestic Meter
etymology
35. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Blank verse
dramatic irony
Foot
36. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Camera view
Novella
Jargon
Moral
37. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Fable
Aphorism
Antagonist
Article
38. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Fairy Tale
Diction
Characterization
Connotation
39. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Limerick
Adjective
Allusion
40. The main section of a long poem.
Hyperbole
Canto
Heroic couplet
Simile
41. 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
Biography
Verb
Epic
Protagonist
42. ' U U
Science fiction
Omniscient
Dactylic
Preposition
43. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Phonology
Imagery
Western
Ambiguity
44. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Allusion
Romance
Historical fiction
45. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Phonology
4 sentence types
Ballad
Novel
46. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Antagonist
4 sentence types
Imagery
Limerick
47. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
End rhyme
First Person
Antagonist
48. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Novel
Profanity (diction)
Personification
Holistic Scoring
49. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Conjunction
Participle
Analogy
Diction
50. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Iambic (foot)
Haiku
Verb
Antagonist
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