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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Phonetics
Mood
Fable
2. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Narrative Point of View
Jargon (diction)
Ambiguity
Ballad
3. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Enjambment
Colloquialisms (diction)
Oxymoron
Hubris
4. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.
Semantics
Haiku
Profanity (diction)
Participle
5. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Cliche
Pronoun
Malapropism
Tragedy
6. U U '
Canto
Adjective
Anapestic
Denotation
7. The perspective from which a story is told.
Novel
Repetition
Irony
Point of View
8. The study of the orgin of words
Apostrophe
Limerick
etymology
Novella
9. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Aphorism
Clause
Assonance
Couplet
10. 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
Science fiction
Setting
Legend
Existentialism
11. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Third Person
Rhythm
Dialect
Frame tale
12. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Genre
Couplet
Existentialism
13. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Tone
Mystery
Archaic (diction)
Jargon
14. 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.
Paradox
Frame tale
Blank verse
Irony
15. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Internal rhyme
4 sentence types
Refrain
Autobiography
16. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Couplet
4 sentence types
Semantics
17. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Foot
Simile
Dactylic
Analogy
18. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Setting
Adjective
Paradox
dramatic irony
19. A person or being in a narrative
Article
Character
Voice
Free verse
20. 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
Camera view
Voice
Folktale
21. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Euphemism
Malapropism
Symbol
22. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Iambic (foot)
Flashback
Paradox
Narrative Point of View
23. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Iambic (foot)
Science fiction
Syntax
24. 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.'
Limerick
Holistic Scoring
Conflict
Elegy
25. 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
Ambiguity
Lyric
Iambic (foot)
26. 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.
situation irony
Pragmatics
Biography
Pronoun
27. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Dactylic
Preposition
Morphology
28. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Anecdote
Cliche
Denouement
Dactylic
29. Persuasive writing.
Metaphor
Rhetoric
Denotation
Mystery
30. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Mood
Lyric
First Person
31. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Fairy Tale
Dialect
Preposition
32. 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.
Canto
Metaphor
Science fiction
Verse
33. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Slang (diction)
Euphemism
Vulgarity
Phonology
34. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Apostrophe
Voice
Foreshadowing
Parody
35. 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
Hyperbole
Article
Connotation
36. 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.
Clause
Preposition
Phonology
Jargon
37. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Lyric
Tone
Foreshadowing
Omniscient
38. The writer says one thing and means another
Point of View
Archaic (diction)
Epic
verbal irony
39. 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.
verbal irony
Hyperbole
Myth
Frame tale
40. 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.
Setting
Personification
Mystery
Double speak
41. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Voice
Blank verse
Horror
Haiku
42. U '
Enjambment
Iambic (foot)
Point of View
Vulgarity
43. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Sonnet
Phonology
Aphorism
Refrain
44. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Science fiction
Jargon (diction)
Plot
4 sentence types
45. 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.
Syntax
Meter
Assonance
Horror
46. 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
Allegory
Dialect
Verse
47. 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
Blank verse
Romance
Anapestic Meter
Frame tale
48. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Simile
Phrase
Alliteration
Tone
49. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Horror
Blank verse
Dialect (diction)
Oxymoron
50. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
situation irony
Assonance
Genre
Plot
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