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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Existentialism
Romance
Iambic (foot)
End rhyme
2. 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 .
Morphology
Caesura
Connosance
First Person
3. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Adjective
Epic
Morphology
Style
4. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Euphemism
Novel
Diction
5. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Science fiction
Tone
Enjambment
Setting
6. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Connosance
Couplet
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Assonance
7. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Pragmatics
Short story
Protagonist
8. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Foreshadowing
Jargon (diction)
Preposition
Genre
9. ' U U
Ballad
4 sentence types
Dialect
Dactylic
10. 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
Alliteration
Diction
Short story
Foot
11. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Participle
Biography
Protagonist
Cliche
12. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Dialect (diction)
Phonology
Verb
Participle
13. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Point of View
Participle
Connosance
Genre
14. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Rhythm
Heroic couplet
Horror
Autobiography
15. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Metaphor
Denotation
Alliteration
Limited omniscient
16. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Foreshadowing
Holistic Scoring
Adverb
Blank verse
17. The telling of a story.
Fantasy
Existentialism
Narration
Trochaic (foot)
18. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Sonnet
Oxymoron
Setting
Diction
19. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Verb
Myth
Antagonist
Enjambment
20. 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.
Character
Third Person
Pronoun
Adjective
21. The study of the structure of sentences.
Archaic (diction)
Syntax
Caesura
Alliteration
22. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Stanza
Parody
Camera view
Article
23. 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.
Preposition
Meter
Point of View
Conjunction
24. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Paradox
Elegy
Characterization
Metaphor
25. 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.
Verb
Flashback
Fable
Anecdote
26. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Noun
Couplet
Phonetics
Oxymoron
27. 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
Noun
Mystery
Western
Satire
28. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Apostrophe
Satire
Paradox
29. 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
Verse
Folktale
Conflict
Aphorism
30. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Antagonist
Refrain
Omniscient
Rhetoric
31. 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.
Rhetoric
Biography
Anapestic Meter
Camera view
32. 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.
Myth
Euphemism
Slang (diction)
Connosance
33. 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.
Denouement
Existentialism
Dialect
Adverb
34. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
Myth
Rhythm
Vulgarity
35. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Vulgarity
Third Person
Rhythm
etymology
36. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Jargon (diction)
Participle
Fairy Tale
Lyric
37. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Enjambment
Moral
Vulgarity
Noun
38. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Euphemism
Analogy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Science fiction
39. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Malapropism
Legend
Allegory
Onomatopoeia
40. 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.'
Connotation
Preposition
Elegy
Phrase
41. 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.
Character
Adverb
Limerick
Mystery
42. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Free verse
Clause
Denotation
Syntax
43. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Vulgarity
Novel
Foot
44. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Morphology
Free verse
Syntax
Repetition
45. 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.
Anapestic
Western
Heroic couplet
Camera view
46. 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
Parody
Alliteration
Enjambment
Setting
47. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Symbol
Allegory
Essay
Heroic couplet
48. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Personification
Repetition
Protagonist
Essay
49. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Historical fiction
Preposition
4 sentence types
Onomatopoeia
50. 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
Limited omniscient
Western
Tragedy
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