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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Plot
Archaic (diction)
Enjambment
Style
2. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Phonetics
Dialect
Adverb
Tragedy
3. 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
Imagery
Epic
Essay
Short story
4. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Plot
Aphorism
Antagonist
Meter
5. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Free verse
Conflict
Simile
situation irony
6. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Myth
dramatic irony
Moral
Metaphor
7. 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.
Point of View
etymology
Narration
Conjunction
8. 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.'
Setting
Elegy
Slang (diction)
verbal irony
9. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
situation irony
Style
Simile
Fantasy
10. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Satire
Metaphor
Denotation
Onomatopoeia
11. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Setting
Imagery
Denouement
Blank verse
12. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Blank verse
dramatic irony
Myth
Fairy Tale
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.
Sonnet
Tragedy
Camera view
Syntax
14. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Couplet
Anecdote
Conflict
Enjambment
15. 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
Mood
Novel
Denouement
16. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Caesura
Oxymoron
Alliteration
Ballad
17. 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.
Meter
Verb
Stanza
Paradox
18. The study of the structure of sentences.
Elegy
Syntax
Anapestic
Fable
19. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Oxymoron
Verb
Ambiguity
Meter
20. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Clause
Jargon (diction)
End rhyme
Mood
21. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Anapestic Meter
Symbol
Voice
Conjunction
22. 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.
Protagonist
Haiku
Omniscient
Mood
23. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Canto
Phonetics
Paradox
Connosance
24. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Anapestic Meter
Camera view
Malapropism
Semantics
25. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Dialect
Verse
Legend
Aphorism
26. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Folktale
Fantasy
Aphorism
27. 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
Fairy Tale
Morphology
Participle
Aphorism
28. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
situation irony
Protagonist
Anapestic
Ambiguity
29. A person or being in a narrative
Conjunction
Euphemism
Character
Diction
30. ' U U
Phonology
Point of View
situation irony
Dactylic
31. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Cliche
Tone
Connosance
Autobiography
32. 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.
Foot
Caesura
Mystery
Dialect (diction)
33. 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.
Enjambment
Article
Aphorism
Horror
34. The study of the structure of words.
Narration
Morphology
Tone
Simile
35. 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.
Irony
Autobiography
Haiku
Euphemism
36. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Existentialism
Phonology
Voice
Third Person
37. 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
Setting
Epic
etymology
Narrative Point of View
38. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
4 sentence types
Denouement
Omniscient
Jargon
39. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Hubris
Assonance
Phonology
Symbol
40. U '
Plot
Denouement
Sonnet
Iambic (foot)
41. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Allegory
Hubris
Foot
42. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Pragmatics
Third Person
Satire
Double speak
43. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Slang (diction)
Paradox
Diction
End rhyme
44. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Verse
Clause
Dialect
Ballad
45. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Legend
Omniscient
Phrase
Narrative Point of View
46. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Mood
Biography
Assonance
Western
47. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Denotation
Moral
Noun
Foreshadowing
48. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Meter
Free verse
Hyperbole
Characterization
49. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Lyric
Semantics
Character
First Person
50. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Euphemism
Holistic Scoring
Analogy
Fantasy
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