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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. 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.
Pronoun
Heroic couplet
Rhetoric
4 sentence types
2. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Preposition
Short story
Cliche
Phrase
3. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Dialect (diction)
Canto
Jargon
Internal rhyme
4. 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.
Short story
Trochaic (foot)
Irony
Elegy
5. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Tragedy
Fantasy
Clause
Point of View
6. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Refrain
Ballad
Internal rhyme
Syntax
7. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Adverb
Novel
Metaphor
Characterization
8. 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.
Blank verse
Stanza
Anapestic Meter
Essay
9. 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
Article
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
10. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Caesura
Verb
Elegy
situation irony
11. 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.
Limited omniscient
Horror
Vulgarity
Euphemism
12. 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
Ambiguity
Epic
Enjambment
Folktale
13. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Verb
Character
Tragedy
Flashback
14. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Foot
Phonetics
Document (letter - diary - journal)
15. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Folktale
Connosance
Free verse
Omniscient
16. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Free verse
Couplet
Novella
Satire
17. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.
Cliche
Romance
Syntax
Stanza
18. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Semantics
Heroic couplet
Assonance
Anapestic
19. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Satire
Conflict
Frame tale
Double speak
20. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Mood
Epic
Narration
Personification
21. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Assonance
Rhythm
Existentialism
Short story
22. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Profanity (diction)
Conflict
Adjective
Denotation
23. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Flashback
End rhyme
Ballad
Satire
24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Essay
Romance
First Person
25. 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.
Phonetics
Ambiguity
Anapestic Meter
Camera view
26. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Setting
Simile
Jargon (diction)
Omniscient
27. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Anecdote
Myth
Phonetics
Allegory
28. The main section of a long poem.
Rhythm
Existentialism
Canto
situation irony
29. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Clause
Simile
Third Person
End rhyme
30. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Mood
Voice
Allusion
Antagonist
31. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Tone
Couplet
Metaphor
Double speak
32. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Moral
Assonance
Pragmatics
33. The perspective from which a story is told.
Point of View
Elegy
Character
Preposition
34. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend
Hyperbole
Oxymoron
Anapestic Meter
Legend
35. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Euphemism
Fairy Tale
Voice
Analogy
36. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Science fiction
Fairy Tale
Verse
Irony
37. 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 .
Essay
Fantasy
End rhyme
Caesura
38. The study of the orgin of words
Rhetoric
Euphemism
Style
etymology
39. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Phonetics
Allusion
Biography
40. Persuasive writing.
Satire
Ambiguity
Adjective
Rhetoric
41. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Personification
Phonology
Metaphor
Narration
42. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.
Denotation
Conjunction
Epic
Fable
43. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Free verse
Omniscient
Morphology
Onomatopoeia
44. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Vulgarity
Connotation
Dialect
Narration
45. 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
Folktale
Setting
Foot
Foreshadowing
46. 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
Euphemism
Sonnet
End rhyme
Noun
47. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Pragmatics
Dialect
Limited omniscient
Meter
48. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Biography
Dialect
Onomatopoeia
49. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Conjunction
Hubris
Hyperbole
Parody
50. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Couplet
Dialect
Genre
Stanza