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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Voice
Allusion
Genre
2. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
End rhyme
Allegory
Flashback
Novella
3. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Anapestic
Article
Refrain
4. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Jargon (diction)
4 sentence types
Fable
Phonetics
5. 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.
Participle
Irony
dramatic irony
Verb
6. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Denotation
Characterization
Satire
Profanity (diction)
7. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
First Person
Malapropism
Antagonist
Phonetics
8. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Satire
Transcendentalism
Point of View
Denotation
9. 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
Western
Transcendentalism
Personification
Folktale
10. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Holistic Scoring
Limited omniscient
Characterization
Tragedy
11. 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
Foot
Repetition
Point of View
Stanza
12. 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.
Preposition
Science fiction
Phonology
Tone
13. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Mystery
Conjunction
Novella
Rhythm
14. 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.
Jargon (diction)
Myth
Preposition
Sonnet
15. 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.
Short story
Hyperbole
Autobiography
Mood
16. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Epic
Antagonist
Foot
Oxymoron
17. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Rhetoric
Trochaic (foot)
Connotation
Euphemism
18. 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.
Existentialism
Satire
Canto
Autobiography
19. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Adverb
Cliche
Hubris
Clause
20. A person or being in a narrative
Irony
Character
Legend
Narration
21. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Flashback
Personification
Style
Essay
22. Persuasive writing.
Adjective
Pronoun
Vulgarity
Rhetoric
23. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Rhetoric
Clause
Satire
Oxymoron
24. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Phrase
Foreshadowing
Conjunction
End rhyme
25. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Noun
Tone
Oxymoron
First Person
26. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Mood
Plot
End rhyme
Pragmatics
27. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Jargon
Limited omniscient
Dactylic
Aphorism
28. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Anecdote
First Person
Setting
29. 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
Mood
Caesura
Sonnet
Conjunction
30. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Vulgarity
Assonance
Stanza
Phonology
31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Free verse
Conflict
Jargon (diction)
Novella
32. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Haiku
Cliche
Plot
Voice
33. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Noun
Verb
Clause
Legend
34. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Clause
Genre
Sonnet
Parody
35. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Symbol
Noun
Semantics
Double speak
36. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Participle
Archaic (diction)
Iambic (foot)
Novel
37. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Caesura
situation irony
Couplet
Assonance
38. The study of the meaning in language.
Dialect (diction)
Conflict
Mystery
Semantics
39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Meter
Foot
Verb
40. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Style
Adverb
Essay
41. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
dramatic irony
Vulgarity
Jargon (diction)
verbal irony
42. The telling of a story.
Horror
Narration
Connotation
Refrain
43. The main character or hero of a written work.
Apostrophe
Protagonist
Limerick
Foot
44. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.
Camera view
Ballad
Transcendentalism
Diction
45. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.
Noun
Omniscient
Preposition
Parody
46. 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
Syntax
Profanity (diction)
Omniscient
47. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Free verse
Onomatopoeia
Verse
Narration
48. 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.
Sonnet
Haiku
Style
Slang (diction)
49. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E
Tragedy
Ballad
Fantasy
Legend
50. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
situation irony
Frame tale
Iambic (foot)
Conflict
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