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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. 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
Enjambment
Euphemism
Voice
Imagery
2. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Dialect
Fairy Tale
Denouement
Pragmatics
3. U '
Horror
Iambic (foot)
Phrase
Dactylic
4. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Dactylic
First Person
Diction
Allegory
5. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Symbol
Heroic couplet
Anapestic
6. Persuasive writing.
Jargon
Rhetoric
Historical fiction
Phonetics
7. 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
Frame tale
Analogy
Enjambment
Cliche
8. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Enjambment
4 sentence types
Syntax
Cliche
9. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Jargon
Clause
Onomatopoeia
Anapestic
10. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Conjunction
Sonnet
Antagonist
Allusion
11. The study of the structure of sentences.
Rhetoric
Ambiguity
Internal rhyme
Syntax
12. 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.'
Diction
Colloquialisms (diction)
Elegy
Allegory
13. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Hubris
Couplet
Setting
Colloquialisms (diction)
14. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Foot
Novella
Enjambment
Connotation
15. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Short story
verbal irony
Assonance
Free verse
16. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Cliche
Satire
Preposition
Moral
17. 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.
Plot
Style
Holistic Scoring
Morphology
18. 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.
Folktale
Malapropism
Article
Irony
19. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Profanity (diction)
Phrase
Refrain
Myth
20. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
First Person
Trochaic (foot)
Noun
Ambiguity
21. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Biography
Pronoun
Simile
Hyperbole
22. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Archaic (diction)
Heroic couplet
Symbol
Epic
23. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Double speak
Science fiction
Clause
24. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Ballad
Denouement
Rhetoric
Connosance
25. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
etymology
Holistic Scoring
Jargon (diction)
Rhetoric
26. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Genre
Participle
Rhythm
Omniscient
27. The perspective from which a story is told.
Anapestic Meter
Point of View
Myth
Semantics
28. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Anapestic
Hubris
Article
29. 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.
Satire
Oxymoron
Stanza
Adjective
30. U U '
Genre
Anapestic
Participle
Cliche
31. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Dialect
Assonance
Cliche
Apostrophe
32. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Genre
Legend
Denouement
Simile
33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Jargon (diction)
Myth
4 sentence types
Character
34. 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.
Flashback
Fantasy
Horror
Denouement
35. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Phonetics
End rhyme
Autobiography
Romance
36. The writer says one thing and means another
verbal irony
Pragmatics
Rhythm
Jargon
37. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Moral
Denouement
Essay
38. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Irony
Essay
Protagonist
39. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Novel
Clause
First Person
Metaphor
40. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Hyperbole
Internal rhyme
Fable
41. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Phonetics
Personification
Conjunction
Conflict
42. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
verbal irony
Canto
Essay
Hubris
43. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Folktale
Adjective
Imagery
44. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Imagery
Aphorism
Verse
45. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Hubris
Setting
Cliche
Third Person
46. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Slang (diction)
Colloquialisms (diction)
Double speak
Personification
47. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Anapestic Meter
Plot
Phonology
Verb
48. 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
Autobiography
Plot
Anapestic Meter
49. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Archaic (diction)
Euphemism
Aphorism
Adjective
50. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Archaic (diction)
Cliche
Vulgarity