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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Anecdote
Tone
Sonnet
Personification
2. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Limerick
Parody
Preposition
Voice
3. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Parody
Enjambment
Cliche
Article
4. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
First Person
Phrase
Apostrophe
Jargon (diction)
5. 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
Vulgarity
Article
Tone
Euphemism
6. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Haiku
Short story
Horror
Hubris
7. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Protagonist
Tragedy
Clause
Malapropism
8. 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
Anapestic
Setting
Folktale
Character
9. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Clause
Antagonist
Ambiguity
10. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Jargon
Narration
Tragedy
Stanza
11. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Blank verse
Aphorism
Noun
Dialect
12. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Narration
Ambiguity
verbal irony
13. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Fable
Voice
Denotation
Sonnet
14. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Pragmatics
Novella
Connotation
Dialect
15. ' U U
Dactylic
Stanza
Hyperbole
Conflict
16. The main character or hero of a written work.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Dialect
dramatic irony
Protagonist
17. 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
Allusion
Malapropism
Autobiography
18. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Style
Trochaic (foot)
Antagonist
19. 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
Adjective
Foot
Noun
Novella
20. 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.
Holistic Scoring
Participle
Rhythm
Limited omniscient
21. 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.'
Short story
Elegy
Setting
Anecdote
22. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Frame tale
Refrain
Limited omniscient
23. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Setting
Caesura
Hyperbole
24. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Oxymoron
Ambiguity
Phonology
Verb
25. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Limerick
Phonetics
Tragedy
Connotation
26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Anapestic
Science fiction
Existentialism
27. 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
Phonetics
Syntax
Rhetoric
28. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Oxymoron
Anecdote
Lyric
29. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Repetition
Archaic (diction)
Rhetoric
Characterization
30. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Caesura
Tragedy
Internal rhyme
Alliteration
31. The telling of a story.
Conflict
Limerick
Narration
Narrative Point of View
32. The study of the orgin of words
Fantasy
Irony
etymology
Blank verse
33. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Legend
Ballad
Euphemism
Novel
34. 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
Epic
Hubris
Western
Voice
35. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Conflict
Protagonist
Paradox
Plot
36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Plot
Internal rhyme
End rhyme
Characterization
37. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Ambiguity
Narrative Point of View
Internal rhyme
Assonance
38. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Character
Noun
Conflict
Symbol
39. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Meter
Participle
Repetition
Iambic (foot)
40. 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 -
Mood
Transcendentalism
Phonetics
Limited omniscient
41. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Symbol
Frame tale
Elegy
Rhythm
42. 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.
Metaphor
Myth
Haiku
First Person
43. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Couplet
Character
Novel
Setting
44. The study of the structure of sentences.
Limerick
Syntax
Repetition
dramatic irony
45. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Romance
Style
Meter
Hyperbole
46. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Point of View
Refrain
Anecdote
Mood
47. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Vulgarity
Onomatopoeia
Limited omniscient
Profanity (diction)
48. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Tone
Biography
situation irony
Protagonist
49. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Slang (diction)
Antagonist
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Mystery
50. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Hubris
Western
Iambic (foot)
Oxymoron
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