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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The main section of a long poem.
Epic
Antagonist
Tone
Canto
2. 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.
Conflict
Foreshadowing
Participle
Preposition
3. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Omniscient
Limited omniscient
Flashback
Short story
4. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Stanza
Couplet
Allegory
Verb
5. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Symbol
Phonetics
Phonology
Pronoun
6. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Fable
Trochaic (foot)
4 sentence types
Noun
7. The perspective from which a story is told.
Romance
Plot
Phrase
Point of View
8. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Metaphor
Narrative Point of View
Character
verbal irony
9. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Onomatopoeia
Meter
Connosance
situation irony
10. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Narrative Point of View
Profanity (diction)
Simile
Legend
11. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Frame tale
Phrase
Dialect
Clause
12. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Pronoun
Dialect
Preposition
Short story
13. 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.
Pronoun
situation irony
Horror
Hyperbole
14. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Semantics
Parody
Limerick
Euphemism
15. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Limited omniscient
Verse
Profanity (diction)
Verb
16. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Narration
Personification
17. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Lyric
Allusion
Frame tale
18. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Style
Narration
Antagonist
Frame tale
19. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Participle
Fairy Tale
Diction
4 sentence types
20. 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
Point of View
Novella
Stanza
Epic
21. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Meter
Omniscient
situation irony
Article
22. 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.
Science fiction
Foreshadowing
Camera view
Apostrophe
23. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Hubris
Plot
Blank verse
Narration
24. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Fairy Tale
Analogy
Setting
Epic
25. The study of the structure of words.
Pragmatics
Morphology
Parody
Historical fiction
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.
dramatic irony
Genre
Mystery
Meter
27. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Simile
Dactylic
Novella
28. U '
Iambic (foot)
Slang (diction)
Mystery
Conflict
29. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Dialect
Plot
Anecdote
Existentialism
30. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Tragedy
Dialect
Haiku
Adverb
31. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
situation irony
Protagonist
Meter
Dialect (diction)
32. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Fable
Adjective
Camera view
Genre
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.
Limited omniscient
Western
Existentialism
Euphemism
34. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Caesura
Plot
Anapestic Meter
Phonetics
35. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Analogy
Romance
Camera view
Heroic couplet
36. 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.
Rhythm
Oxymoron
Irony
End rhyme
37. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
dramatic irony
Slang (diction)
Onomatopoeia
Apostrophe
38. 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
Moral
Horror
Folktale
Conjunction
39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Tone
Anapestic
Voice
Parody
40. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Simile
Anecdote
Conflict
Analogy
41. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Assonance
Apostrophe
Phrase
Antagonist
42. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Analogy
Imagery
Narrative Point of View
Ambiguity
43. A story about a person's life written by another person.
First Person
Biography
Antagonist
Caesura
44. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Participle
Verse
Assonance
Phrase
45. 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
Onomatopoeia
situation irony
Foot
Camera view
46. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Third Person
Apostrophe
Slang (diction)
Moral
47. 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.
Assonance
Plot
Enjambment
Horror
48. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Slang (diction)
Mood
Tone
Allegory
49. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Refrain
Existentialism
Parody
Anecdote
50. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Antagonist
Couplet
Metaphor
Repetition
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