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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Canto
Camera view
Rhythm
Imagery
2. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Profanity (diction)
Novella
Foot
Novel
3. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath
Connosance
Science fiction
Epic
Diction
4. ' U
Assonance
Article
Myth
Trochaic (foot)
5. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Blank verse
Dialect (diction)
Setting
Dialect
6. 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.
Paradox
Existentialism
Refrain
Alliteration
7. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
4 sentence types
Legend
Parody
Symbol
8. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Hubris
Protagonist
Science fiction
9. 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
Refrain
Legend
Science fiction
Paradox
10. 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
Plot
Character
Fairy Tale
Paradox
11. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Euphemism
First Person
Genre
Participle
12. 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.
Rhetoric
Irony
Myth
Metaphor
13. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Cliche
Participle
Historical fiction
14. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Lyric
Denotation
Enjambment
4 sentence types
15. 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
Canto
Malapropism
Clause
16. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Semantics
Connosance
Mood
Point of View
17. The telling of a story.
Pronoun
Narration
Free verse
Characterization
18. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Transcendentalism
End rhyme
Adverb
19. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Morphology
Pragmatics
4 sentence types
Assonance
20. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Oxymoron
Parody
Tone
Phonology
21. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Connotation
Lyric
Romance
Phonetics
22. 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.
Personification
Pronoun
Parody
Point of View
23. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Plot
Tone
Stanza
Parody
24. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Iambic (foot)
Protagonist
Couplet
Fantasy
25. 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.
Stanza
Double speak
Existentialism
Legend
26. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Internal rhyme
Phonetics
Biography
27. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Allegory
Assonance
Clause
28. A person or being in a narrative
Setting
Novel
Character
Haiku
29. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Narration
Sonnet
Stanza
Voice
30. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Biography
Novella
Flashback
Character
31. 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 .
Mystery
Preposition
Setting
Caesura
32. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Antagonist
Hyperbole
Colloquialisms (diction)
Satire
33. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Heroic couplet
Foreshadowing
Alliteration
Historical fiction
34. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Epic
Free verse
Meter
Diction
35. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
dramatic irony
Onomatopoeia
Phonology
Denouement
36. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Onomatopoeia
Ballad
Clause
Irony
37. 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
Elegy
Historical fiction
Euphemism
Transcendentalism
38. 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
Camera view
Paradox
Phonology
Romance
39. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Camera view
Genre
Fantasy
Dialect
40. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Diction
Historical fiction
Iambic (foot)
situation irony
41. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Simile
Novella
Archaic (diction)
Flashback
42. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Western
Existentialism
Ambiguity
Romance
43. 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.
Fairy Tale
Sonnet
Novella
Science fiction
44. 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.
Conjunction
Antagonist
Free verse
Iambic (foot)
45. 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
Phrase
Anapestic Meter
Science fiction
46. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Participle
Setting
Analogy
47. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Parody
Fairy Tale
Narrative Point of View
48. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Alliteration
Archaic (diction)
Caesura
49. 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.
Haiku
Vulgarity
Phonetics
Diction
50. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Elegy
Adjective
Romance