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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
Jargon (diction)
Antagonist
Character
2. 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
Phrase
Short story
Double speak
Phonetics
3. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Fairy Tale
Heroic couplet
Transcendentalism
4. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Conflict
Dialect
Profanity (diction)
Satire
5. 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
Noun
Essay
Novella
6. 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
Folktale
Simile
Western
Camera view
7. 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.
Iambic (foot)
Characterization
Adjective
Legend
8. 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
Syntax
Euphemism
Satire
Dialect
9. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Stanza
Novella
Haiku
10. 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.
Fable
Antagonist
Imagery
Pragmatics
11. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Denotation
4 sentence types
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Malapropism
12. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Participle
verbal irony
Repetition
Satire
13. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Point of View
Horror
Verse
14. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Novella
Aphorism
Alliteration
Ballad
15. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Simile
Canto
Adverb
16. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Anapestic Meter
Analogy
Oxymoron
Mood
17. 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.
Profanity (diction)
First Person
Fable
Haiku
18. A person or being in a narrative
Allegory
Character
Romance
Connotation
19. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Semantics
Parody
verbal irony
Adverb
20. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Protagonist
Free verse
Analogy
Document (letter - diary - journal)
21. 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.'
Frame tale
Elegy
Denouement
Couplet
22. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Parody
Adverb
Free verse
Simile
23. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Fable
Science fiction
Repetition
Colloquialisms (diction)
24. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Trochaic (foot)
Satire
Moral
Foreshadowing
25. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Analogy
Imagery
Anecdote
Dialect (diction)
26. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Point of View
Denouement
dramatic irony
Fantasy
27. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Symbol
Lyric
Conjunction
Style
28. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Moral
Ballad
Repetition
Allegory
29. Persuasive writing.
Aphorism
Rhetoric
Repetition
Autobiography
30. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Verb
Elegy
Jargon
Alliteration
31. 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.
Personification
Horror
Science fiction
Limerick
32. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Limited omniscient
Article
Character
Refrain
33. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Double speak
Dialect
Biography
Genre
34. 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.
Transcendentalism
End rhyme
Foreshadowing
Myth
35. 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.
Iambic (foot)
Analogy
Hyperbole
Stanza
36. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Morphology
Personification
Limerick
Myth
37. 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
Holistic Scoring
Folktale
Setting
Autobiography
38. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
First Person
Foot
Couplet
Haiku
39. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Transcendentalism
Aphorism
Pragmatics
Metaphor
40. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Antagonist
Sonnet
Iambic (foot)
41. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Symbol
Legend
Noun
Double speak
42. The perspective from which a story is told.
Romance
situation irony
Point of View
Euphemism
43. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Phrase
Connotation
Free verse
Essay
44. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
4 sentence types
Apostrophe
Epic
Style
45. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Essay
dramatic irony
Satire
46. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Haiku
Vulgarity
Mystery
Connosance
47. The study of the meaning in language.
Semantics
Symbol
situation irony
Foot
48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Colloquialisms (diction)
Aphorism
Allusion
Analogy
49. 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.
Caesura
Jargon (diction)
Holistic Scoring
Epic
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Camera view
Anecdote
Anapestic
Dialect