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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. The study of the orgin of words
Fantasy
Refrain
Antagonist
etymology
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
Phonetics
Elegy
Dialect (diction)
Short story
3. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Repetition
Oxymoron
Myth
Omniscient
4. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Limerick
Jargon
Internal rhyme
Simile
5. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Moral
Tone
Novella
Pronoun
6. U U '
Diction
Myth
Allegory
Anapestic
7. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Blank verse
Slang (diction)
Verse
8. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
situation irony
Dialect (diction)
Meter
Article
9. 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
Imagery
Biography
Setting
10. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Stanza
4 sentence types
Alliteration
Haiku
11. The perspective from which a story is told.
Anapestic
Blank verse
etymology
Point of View
12. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Novel
Onomatopoeia
Euphemism
Participle
13. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Imagery
Essay
Participle
Verse
14. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Morphology
Simile
Third Person
15. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Character
Frame tale
Phonetics
Voice
16. The main character or hero of a written work.
Protagonist
Refrain
Fairy Tale
Genre
17. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Noun
Blank verse
Foreshadowing
Connotation
18. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Phonology
Hubris
Dialect (diction)
Iambic (foot)
19. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Free verse
Pragmatics
Satire
Jargon (diction)
20. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Setting
First Person
Romance
Archaic (diction)
21. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Setting
Couplet
Historical fiction
Foreshadowing
22. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Dialect
Oxymoron
Slang (diction)
Alliteration
23. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Antagonist
Colloquialisms (diction)
Parody
Dialect
24. The main section of a long poem.
Short story
Refrain
Canto
Limerick
25. 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
Anapestic
Western
Noun
Jargon
26. 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.
Dialect (diction)
Adverb
Malapropism
Mood
27. 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.
Antagonist
Fable
Denouement
Euphemism
28. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Pragmatics
Paradox
Third Person
Holistic Scoring
29. 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.
Horror
Antagonist
Point of View
Folktale
30. 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
Conjunction
Satire
Novella
31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Phonetics
Lyric
Third Person
Phonology
32. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Article
Genre
Frame tale
Verb
33. 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.
Science fiction
Canto
Dactylic
Hyperbole
34. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Mood
Connosance
Paradox
35. ' U
Antagonist
Connotation
Trochaic (foot)
Sonnet
36. 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
Anapestic Meter
Folktale
Profanity (diction)
Jargon
37. 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.
Tone
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Preposition
Limerick
38. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Allusion
Slang (diction)
Refrain
Denouement
39. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Anapestic Meter
Symbol
Preposition
Third Person
40. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
dramatic irony
Free verse
Omniscient
Satire
41. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Adjective
Article
Flashback
Personification
42. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dactylic
Dialect
4 sentence types
Moral
43. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Pragmatics
Character
Analogy
Profanity (diction)
44. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Symbol
Heroic couplet
Ambiguity
Plot
45. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Verse
dramatic irony
Foreshadowing
Profanity (diction)
46. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Tone
Epic
4 sentence types
Haiku
47. 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
Narration
Sonnet
Parody
Autobiography
48. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Fantasy
Narrative Point of View
Malapropism
Dialect
49. 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.
Dialect
Irony
Narration
Canto
50. 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 .
Style
Mystery
Caesura
Tone
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