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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. 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
Essay
Paradox
Euphemism
Horror
2. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Hyperbole
4 sentence types
Character
3. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Protagonist
Holistic Scoring
Clause
Personification
4. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Character
Novel
Protagonist
Free verse
5. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Haiku
Omniscient
Pragmatics
Couplet
6. 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.
dramatic irony
Phonetics
Preposition
Pronoun
7. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Historical fiction
Canto
Sonnet
Lyric
8. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Anapestic Meter
Novella
Conjunction
Refrain
9. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Essay
Novel
Verb
10. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Paradox
Denotation
Romance
Aphorism
11. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Phonology
Metaphor
Oxymoron
Moral
12. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Jargon (diction)
Phrase
Participle
Refrain
13. 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
Ambiguity
Dactylic
Denotation
14. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Moral
Article
Adverb
Haiku
15. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Mystery
Dialect
Western
Anecdote
16. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Phonetics
Essay
Omniscient
Tone
17. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Malapropism
Anapestic
Enjambment
Novella
18. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Setting
Ambiguity
Foot
19. 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
Fantasy
Character
Paradox
Euphemism
20. 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
Analogy
Canto
Enjambment
Pronoun
21. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Stanza
Denouement
Narrative Point of View
Setting
22. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Phonology
Alliteration
Noun
Western
23. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Character
Repetition
Denotation
Meter
24. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Syntax
Mood
Colloquialisms (diction)
Pragmatics
25. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Folktale
Malapropism
Verb
Couplet
26. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Dialect (diction)
Stanza
Connosance
Euphemism
27. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Epic
situation irony
Ballad
Biography
28. 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
Myth
Autobiography
Point of View
29. 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.
Participle
Refrain
Limerick
Setting
30. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Trochaic (foot)
Denotation
Characterization
Historical fiction
31. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Preposition
Satire
Moral
Vulgarity
32. 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.
Aphorism
Holistic Scoring
Paradox
Setting
33. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Meter
Novella
Allegory
First Person
34. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Hyperbole
Science fiction
Denouement
Foreshadowing
35. 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.
Pronoun
Conjunction
Third Person
Limited omniscient
36. 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 -
Conflict
Slang (diction)
Transcendentalism
Diction
37. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Profanity (diction)
Paradox
Free verse
Transcendentalism
38. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Symbol
Protagonist
Plot
Fantasy
39. 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
Omniscient
Adverb
Protagonist
Frame tale
40. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Fairy Tale
Fable
Repetition
Genre
41. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Connotation
Symbol
Adverb
Paradox
42. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Canto
Novella
Biography
Cliche
43. 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.
Euphemism
Iambic (foot)
Denouement
Pronoun
44. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Foreshadowing
Trochaic (foot)
Ambiguity
Dialect
45. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Aphorism
Legend
Autobiography
Horror
46. 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.
Autobiography
Haiku
Phonology
Profanity (diction)
47. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Hyperbole
Historical fiction
First Person
Symbol
48. 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
Allegory
Parody
Repetition
Folktale
49. 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
Legend
verbal irony
Anecdote
Genre
50. 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.'
Historical fiction
Elegy
Paradox
Foot