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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
First Person
Assonance
Autobiography
Holistic Scoring
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.
Pronoun
Enjambment
Blank verse
Conjunction
3. 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.
Oxymoron
Dactylic
Holistic Scoring
Pronoun
4. The writer says one thing and means another
etymology
Horror
verbal irony
Third Person
5. 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
Fairy Tale
Setting
Stanza
6. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Analogy
verbal irony
Frame tale
Antagonist
7. 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.
Phonetics
Aphorism
Epic
Conjunction
8. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Essay
Phrase
Novella
Vulgarity
9. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Historical fiction
Meter
Tragedy
4 sentence types
10. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Legend
Metaphor
Apostrophe
11. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Verb
Heroic couplet
Mood
Preposition
12. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Enjambment
Oxymoron
Noun
Analogy
13. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Free verse
Hubris
Preposition
Foot
14. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Folktale
Biography
Trochaic (foot)
15. 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
Character
Iambic (foot)
Fairy Tale
Narrative Point of View
16. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Imagery
Colloquialisms (diction)
Rhythm
Novella
17. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Limited omniscient
Fairy Tale
Malapropism
Metaphor
18. 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
Point of View
Repetition
Free verse
Folktale
19. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Parody
Preposition
Point of View
Lyric
20. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Jargon (diction)
Caesura
situation irony
21. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Limited omniscient
4 sentence types
Refrain
Euphemism
22. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Anapestic Meter
Assonance
Caesura
Semantics
23. 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.
Biography
Genre
Adjective
Short story
24. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Connotation
Euphemism
Ballad
Stanza
25. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Dialect (diction)
Flashback
Semantics
Dactylic
26. 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
Omniscient
Moral
Foot
Simile
27. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Style
Metaphor
Limerick
28. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Colloquialisms (diction)
Apostrophe
Free verse
Fairy Tale
29. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Antagonist
Anapestic
Lyric
30. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Heroic couplet
Blank verse
Anapestic
31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Foreshadowing
Phonology
Fantasy
Conflict
32. 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.
Stanza
Hyperbole
dramatic irony
Legend
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.
situation irony
Tragedy
Existentialism
Hyperbole
34. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Point of View
Paradox
End rhyme
Oxymoron
35. 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.'
Elegy
Couplet
Article
Historical fiction
36. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Connotation
Imagery
Adverb
situation irony
37. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Pronoun
Rhetoric
Historical fiction
Foot
38. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Meter
Dialect
Repetition
Free verse
39. The study of the structure of words.
Morphology
Voice
Alliteration
Holistic Scoring
40. The study of the structure of sentences.
Malapropism
Transcendentalism
Rhetoric
Syntax
41. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Denouement
Legend
Verb
Genre
42. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Imagery
Allegory
Historical fiction
Connotation
43. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Frame tale
Satire
Euphemism
44. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo
Colloquialisms (diction)
Western
Assonance
Narrative Point of View
45. U U '
Mystery
Refrain
Anapestic
Apostrophe
46. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Trochaic (foot)
Phrase
Diction
4 sentence types
47. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Free verse
Point of View
Anapestic
Dialect
48. Persuasive writing.
Malapropism
Phrase
Historical fiction
Rhetoric
49. 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
Sonnet
Clause
Repetition
Fairy Tale
50. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Semantics
Lyric
Symbol
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