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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Limited omniscient
Epic
Rhetoric
2. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Characterization
Antagonist
Alliteration
Imagery
3. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Vulgarity
Setting
Limited omniscient
Tragedy
4. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Semantics
Myth
Connotation
Allegory
5. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Imagery
Essay
Denouement
6. 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
Holistic Scoring
Adjective
Connosance
7. 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.
Enjambment
Satire
dramatic irony
Hyperbole
8. 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.
Flashback
Internal rhyme
Adjective
Repetition
9. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
First Person
Fairy Tale
4 sentence types
Style
10. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Double speak
Third Person
Legend
situation irony
11. 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.
Point of View
Mystery
Cliche
Irony
12. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho
Conflict
Phonology
Fairy Tale
Preposition
13. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Antagonist
Couplet
Anapestic Meter
Rhetoric
14. 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.
Satire
Existentialism
Couplet
Epic
15. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Blank verse
Imagery
Mystery
Anapestic
16. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Caesura
Diction
Haiku
Irony
17. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Conjunction
Flashback
Euphemism
Point of View
18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
4 sentence types
Elegy
Internal rhyme
Metaphor
19. 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.
Rhetoric
Third Person
Pronoun
Hyperbole
20. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Jargon
dramatic irony
Antagonist
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
Anapestic Meter
Conjunction
Pragmatics
22. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
Ambiguity
Canto
End rhyme
Meter
23. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Analogy
Refrain
Trochaic (foot)
Canto
24. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Novella
Analogy
Hubris
Voice
25. 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.
Archaic (diction)
Fantasy
Adverb
Limerick
26. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Antagonist
Characterization
Pragmatics
Euphemism
27. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Fantasy
Free verse
Denotation
Clause
28. 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.
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Myth
Trochaic (foot)
Allegory
29. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Novella
Jargon (diction)
Genre
Verse
30. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Analogy
Jargon (diction)
Heroic couplet
Symbol
31. 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.
Biography
Imagery
Preposition
Adverb
32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Irony
Lyric
Trochaic (foot)
Jargon
33. 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
Omniscient
Folktale
Existentialism
Metaphor
34. 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
Style
Participle
Epic
Malapropism
35. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Personification
Internal rhyme
Elegy
Stanza
36. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Onomatopoeia
Parody
Malapropism
Character
37. The main section of a long poem.
Iambic (foot)
Rhythm
Character
Canto
38. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Satire
Archaic (diction)
Foreshadowing
Canto
39. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Omniscient
Antagonist
Meter
40. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Connotation
Dialect
Antagonist
Anapestic
41. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Characterization
Satire
Syntax
42. 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
Mood
Historical fiction
Short story
Parody
43. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Denouement
Syntax
Essay
Foreshadowing
44. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Dactylic
Apostrophe
Flashback
45. 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 -
Transcendentalism
Canto
Parody
Existentialism
46. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Moral
Hyperbole
dramatic irony
Omniscient
47. The telling of a story.
Narration
Essay
Fable
Autobiography
48. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Verb
Protagonist
Enjambment
Onomatopoeia
49. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Foreshadowing
Denotation
Cliche
50. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Preposition
Rhetoric
Novella
Antagonist