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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Double speak
Personification
Anapestic
Ambiguity
2. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Clause
Romance
Historical fiction
3. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Tone
verbal irony
Jargon
Paradox
4. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Hubris
Folktale
Novel
Style
5. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Tragedy
Symbol
Haiku
Onomatopoeia
6. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.
Connotation
Transcendentalism
Anecdote
Fairy Tale
7. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Rhetoric
dramatic irony
Anecdote
Noun
8. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Semantics
Cliche
Lyric
Dialect
9. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Conflict
Frame tale
Profanity (diction)
Noun
10. 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
Folktale
Apostrophe
Voice
Holistic Scoring
11. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
Parody
Article
12. 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.
Dialect
Horror
Historical fiction
Foot
13. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Flashback
Oxymoron
Phrase
Dialect
14. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Jargon (diction)
Setting
Voice
Ambiguity
15. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Myth
Dactylic
Verse
Clause
16. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Archaic (diction)
Phrase
End rhyme
Frame tale
17. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Diction
Historical fiction
Blank verse
dramatic irony
18. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Moral
Dialect
Existentialism
Fable
19. 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.'
Narrative Point of View
Euphemism
Elegy
Foreshadowing
20. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Conflict
Foreshadowing
Paradox
4 sentence types
21. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
etymology
Limited omniscient
Alliteration
Autobiography
22. 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.
Setting
Refrain
Anapestic Meter
Imagery
23. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Personification
Tone
Point of View
Verb
24. 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
Anecdote
Legend
Imagery
Allegory
25. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Internal rhyme
Semantics
Novel
26. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Assonance
Slang (diction)
Imagery
Apostrophe
27. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Tragedy
Denouement
Autobiography
Character
28. The study of the orgin of words
Clause
Limerick
etymology
Denotation
29. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Mystery
Euphemism
Phrase
Setting
30. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Anapestic Meter
Biography
Folktale
Genre
31. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Dialect (diction)
Frame tale
Connosance
Point of View
32. 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
Voice
Euphemism
Point of View
Diction
33. 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.
Allegory
Limerick
Semantics
Character
34. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Tragedy
Antagonist
Couplet
Haiku
35. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Historical fiction
Anecdote
Simile
Folktale
36. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Mood
Free verse
Dialect
Narrative Point of View
37. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Metaphor
Genre
Irony
Fable
38. The main character or hero of a written work.
Antagonist
Noun
Trochaic (foot)
Protagonist
39. U '
Narrative Point of View
4 sentence types
Iambic (foot)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
40. ' U
Apostrophe
Imagery
Trochaic (foot)
Voice
41. The writer says one thing and means another
Antagonist
verbal irony
Western
Style
42. The study of the structure of words.
Blank verse
Fairy Tale
Morphology
Heroic couplet
43. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Euphemism
Holistic Scoring
Alliteration
End rhyme
44. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
situation irony
Denouement
Morphology
Denotation
45. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Stanza
Third Person
Tragedy
Anecdote
46. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Metaphor
Antagonist
Transcendentalism
Adjective
47. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Legend
Apostrophe
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
48. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Mood
Ballad
Paradox
Western
49. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes
Elegy
Symbol
dramatic irony
Enjambment
50. 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
Simile
Caesura
Free verse
Short story
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