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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Iambic (foot)
Style
Novella
Refrain
2. 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.'
Stanza
Simile
Elegy
Enjambment
3. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Genre
Dialect (diction)
Setting
4. The main character or hero of a written work.
Metaphor
Morphology
Setting
Protagonist
5. 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
Caesura
Epic
Apostrophe
Anecdote
6. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Haiku
Moral
Analogy
Epic
7. 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
Apostrophe
Double speak
4 sentence types
Short story
8. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Adjective
Meter
Allegory
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
Verb
Transcendentalism
Rhetoric
10. 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
Fairy Tale
Pragmatics
Flashback
11. Persuasive writing.
Foot
Rhetoric
Character
Dactylic
12. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Mystery
Denouement
Phonology
Slang (diction)
13. 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.
Narrative Point of View
Voice
Anapestic Meter
Document (letter - diary - journal)
14. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -
Simile
First Person
Transcendentalism
Legend
15. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Oxymoron
Paradox
Dialect
16. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Euphemism
Foreshadowing
Characterization
Vulgarity
17. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Allusion
Denotation
Colloquialisms (diction)
Satire
18. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Enjambment
Metaphor
Tone
Denouement
19. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Rhythm
Canto
Malapropism
Archaic (diction)
20. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w
Article
Anapestic Meter
Genre
Apostrophe
21. 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
Sonnet
Essay
Biography
Document (letter - diary - journal)
22. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Apostrophe
Internal rhyme
Onomatopoeia
23. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Profanity (diction)
Fairy Tale
Parody
24. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
dramatic irony
Symbol
Myth
Internal rhyme
25. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Fairy Tale
Style
Foot
Cliche
26. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Autobiography
Connosance
Noun
Oxymoron
27. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Setting
Conjunction
Morphology
situation irony
28. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Connosance
Moral
Phonology
Irony
29. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Novel
Anecdote
Paradox
Phrase
30. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Science fiction
Novel
Mood
31. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Meter
Moral
Camera view
Diction
32. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Oxymoron
Tone
Frame tale
Imagery
33. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Allusion
Dialect (diction)
Oxymoron
Connotation
34. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Fairy Tale
Personification
Jargon
4 sentence types
35. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Irony
Autobiography
Omniscient
Iambic (foot)
36. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Imagery
Narration
Free verse
Romance
37. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Semantics
Hubris
Refrain
38. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Sonnet
Foreshadowing
Folktale
End rhyme
39. The study of the meaning in language.
Characterization
verbal irony
Semantics
Phonology
40. 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
Limerick
Western
Tone
Noun
41. 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.
Noun
Horror
Canto
Connosance
42. ' U U
Dactylic
Anecdote
Preposition
Mystery
43. 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.
Protagonist
Camera view
Canto
Biography
44. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Phonetics
Participle
Malapropism
45. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Characterization
Omniscient
Adjective
46. 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.
Limerick
Oxymoron
Stanza
Internal rhyme
47. 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
Romance
Lyric
Camera view
Internal rhyme
48. 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.
Sonnet
Phonology
Hyperbole
Meter
49. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Clause
Lyric
etymology
Vulgarity
50. 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
Limerick
Enjambment
Oxymoron
Dactylic