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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Irony
Preposition
Flashback
Phonology
2. 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.
Verb
Pronoun
Camera view
Biography
3. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Legend
Antagonist
Third Person
4. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Novella
Frame tale
Pragmatics
5. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Diction
Connotation
Verse
Flashback
6. 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 -
Cliche
Transcendentalism
Phonetics
Setting
7. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Meter
Narration
Caesura
8. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
End rhyme
Simile
Internal rhyme
9. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.
Limerick
Phonology
Trochaic (foot)
Dialect
10. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Elegy
Dialect (diction)
Irony
Phonetics
11. 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
Narrative Point of View
Sonnet
Oxymoron
situation irony
12. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Assonance
Jargon
Phrase
13. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Imagery
Iambic (foot)
Analogy
14. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Romance
Rhythm
Elegy
Blank verse
15. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
etymology
Trochaic (foot)
Camera view
Malapropism
16. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Camera view
Metaphor
Fairy Tale
17. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Narrative Point of View
Fantasy
Hubris
18. 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 .
Repetition
Caesura
Canto
First Person
19. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Setting
Jargon
Phonology
20. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Camera view
Jargon
Myth
Double speak
21. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Horror
Allusion
Irony
Conflict
22. The study of the orgin of words
End rhyme
Colloquialisms (diction)
etymology
Hyperbole
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.
Foreshadowing
Jargon
Malapropism
Preposition
24. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Noun
Canto
Historical fiction
Oxymoron
25. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
Parody
Aphorism
Jargon (diction)
26. 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.
Mood
Folktale
Mystery
verbal irony
27. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Fairy Tale
Adverb
Third Person
Cliche
28. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Colloquialisms (diction)
4 sentence types
Aphorism
Verb
29. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Cliche
Conjunction
Lyric
Noun
30. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Fantasy
Personification
Anecdote
Conflict
31. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Holistic Scoring
Alliteration
First Person
Euphemism
32. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Epic
Narrative Point of View
Pronoun
Foreshadowing
33. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Phonetics
Phrase
Internal rhyme
34. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Anapestic
Folktale
Imagery
Antagonist
35. 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.
Heroic couplet
Oxymoron
Tone
Hyperbole
36. 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
Haiku
Adverb
Blank verse
Essay
37. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Foreshadowing
Ambiguity
Epic
Setting
38. 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
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Autobiography
Connosance
Pragmatics
39. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Refrain
Conjunction
Enjambment
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etymology
Anecdote
Trochaic (foot)
Horror
41. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Couplet
Simile
Autobiography
Flashback
42. 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.
Essay
Dialect
Anapestic Meter
Character
43. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Onomatopoeia
Assonance
dramatic irony
Existentialism
44. 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
Foot
Tone
Rhetoric
Preposition
45. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Couplet
Onomatopoeia
Participle
46. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
Jargon
Omniscient
Anecdote
47. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Archaic (diction)
Parody
Characterization
Connotation
48. 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
Phrase
Dialect
Enjambment
Limerick
49. 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.
Hyperbole
Irony
Internal rhyme
Dialect
50. A person or being in a narrative
Paradox
Character
Protagonist
Pragmatics
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