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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Haiku
Phonetics
Semantics
2. 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.
Jargon (diction)
Existentialism
Couplet
Dialect (diction)
3. A person or being in a narrative
Oxymoron
Connotation
Character
Narrative Point of View
4. The telling of a story.
Holistic Scoring
Dialect
Narration
Dactylic
5. 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
Archaic (diction)
Foot
Setting
Antagonist
6. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl
Short story
Meter
Moral
Couplet
7. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Apostrophe
Science fiction
Moral
Setting
8. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Adverb
Simile
Historical fiction
Internal rhyme
9. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Conflict
Double speak
Morphology
Limerick
10. 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.
Ambiguity
Western
Camera view
Voice
11. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Colloquialisms (diction)
Foot
Camera view
12. 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.
Semantics
Phrase
Hyperbole
Anapestic Meter
13. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Simile
Essay
Apostrophe
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
Participle
Connosance
Moral
15. The study of the structure of sentences.
End rhyme
Clause
Syntax
Imagery
16. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Elegy
Participle
Jargon
Aphorism
17. 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
Dactylic
Legend
Lyric
Fairy Tale
18. 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.
Preposition
Flashback
Point of View
Anapestic Meter
19. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Protagonist
Legend
Aphorism
Novel
20. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
First Person
Verb
Science fiction
Hubris
21. 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
Satire
Euphemism
Rhythm
22. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Parody
Essay
Lyric
Denouement
23. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Essay
Colloquialisms (diction)
Horror
Aphorism
24. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Phonology
Malapropism
Vulgarity
Anecdote
25. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E
Fantasy
Tone
Analogy
Lyric
26. A person's account of his or hew own life.
dramatic irony
Folktale
Autobiography
Vulgarity
27. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Legend
Conjunction
Hubris
Allusion
28. 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
Horror
Mystery
End rhyme
Sonnet
29. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Narration
Parody
Dialect (diction)
Profanity (diction)
30. 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 .
Connotation
Western
Epic
Caesura
31. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Analogy
Preposition
Novella
Limerick
32. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phonology
Allegory
Phrase
Slang (diction)
33. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Semantics
Personification
Dialect
Adjective
34. The study of the orgin of words
Profanity (diction)
etymology
Hyperbole
End rhyme
35. 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
Euphemism
Setting
Novella
36. 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.
Fairy Tale
Phonetics
Haiku
Biography
37. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Anapestic
Mood
Fable
Hyperbole
38. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Rhetoric
Anapestic
Fairy Tale
39. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Horror
Narration
Dialect (diction)
Flashback
40. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Anecdote
Dialect
Trochaic (foot)
Heroic couplet
41. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Conjunction
Moral
Flashback
42. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Haiku
End rhyme
Personification
Folktale
43. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Short story
Mood
Denotation
etymology
44. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Short story
Apostrophe
Anecdote
Dialect
45. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Short story
End rhyme
Internal rhyme
Allegory
46. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Tone
Connosance
dramatic irony
Imagery
47. 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
Pronoun
Trochaic (foot)
Flashback
48. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Antagonist
Noun
Morphology
Connotation
49. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Lyric
Anecdote
Diction
Historical fiction
50. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
Article
Science fiction
Dialect (diction)