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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Onomatopoeia
Genre
Epic
Morphology
2. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Characterization
Oxymoron
Adverb
Colloquialisms (diction)
3. 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
Ballad
End rhyme
Cliche
4. 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
Tone
Dialect
Style
5. 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.
Participle
Internal rhyme
Essay
Adverb
6. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Trochaic (foot)
Characterization
Imagery
Short story
7. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Lyric
Dialect (diction)
Connotation
Autobiography
8. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Couplet
Foreshadowing
Euphemism
Meter
9. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Legend
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Heroic couplet
Couplet
10. 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
Apostrophe
Verb
Vulgarity
etymology
11. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Double speak
Dactylic
Simile
Setting
12. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.
Repetition
Denouement
Genre
Simile
13. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Profanity (diction)
Haiku
Foreshadowing
Biography
14. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Personification
Dialect (diction)
Jargon (diction)
Parody
15. ' U U
Dactylic
Allegory
Point of View
Dialect (diction)
16. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Anapestic Meter
Novel
Phonology
Oxymoron
17. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Phonetics
Setting
Cliche
Novella
18. 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.
Connosance
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Hyperbole
Denotation
19. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Analogy
Tone
Style
Antagonist
20. 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 -
Euphemism
Hyperbole
Transcendentalism
Parody
21. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Limited omniscient
Western
Third Person
Colloquialisms (diction)
22. 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.
Pronoun
Rhythm
Imagery
Point of View
23. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.
Folktale
Transcendentalism
Denotation
Vulgarity
24. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Flashback
Limerick
Assonance
Tragedy
25. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Phrase
Dialect (diction)
Autobiography
26. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Ambiguity
Repetition
Dialect
Heroic couplet
27. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Autobiography
Analogy
Simile
Rhetoric
28. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Mystery
Adverb
Flashback
Hubris
29. 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.
First Person
Existentialism
Anapestic
Rhythm
30. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Participle
Jargon (diction)
situation irony
4 sentence types
31. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Imagery
Autobiography
Vulgarity
Limited omniscient
32. The study of the structure of words.
Style
Adjective
Morphology
Plot
33. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Irony
Lyric
Parody
Existentialism
34. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a
Phonology
Alliteration
Syntax
Euphemism
35. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conjunction
Allusion
Conflict
Satire
36. 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
Double speak
Epic
Verb
Couplet
37. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Double speak
Alliteration
Noun
situation irony
38. 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.
Blank verse
Aphorism
Analogy
Anapestic Meter
39. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Camera view
Assonance
Trochaic (foot)
Denouement
40. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Setting
Refrain
Free verse
Apostrophe
41. 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
Mystery
Double speak
Foot
Jargon (diction)
42. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Phrase
Horror
Personification
Setting
43. 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.
Simile
Antagonist
Rhetoric
Haiku
44. ' U
Trochaic (foot)
Vulgarity
Paradox
Diction
45. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Novel
Participle
Repetition
Verse
46. 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
Short story
Haiku
Transcendentalism
Pragmatics
47. U '
Iambic (foot)
Epic
Anecdote
Irony
48. 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.
Lyric
Conjunction
Rhythm
Narration
49. 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.
Slang (diction)
Semantics
Point of View
Horror
50. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Setting
Narration
Adverb
Couplet
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