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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. 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
Double speak
Euphemism
Dialect
Jargon
2. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Analogy
Existentialism
Anapestic Meter
Lyric
3. 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.
Syntax
Anapestic Meter
Tone
Article
4. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Antagonist
Horror
Dialect
5. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Autobiography
Imagery
Novella
Adjective
6. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Aphorism
Ballad
Double speak
7. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Third Person
Canto
Malapropism
8. 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
Omniscient
Flashback
Epic
Irony
9. 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.
Participle
Antagonist
Narrative Point of View
Conjunction
10. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Slang (diction)
Allegory
Double speak
Semantics
11. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Holistic Scoring
Internal rhyme
Metaphor
Repetition
12. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Protagonist
Western
Euphemism
13. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Fable
Mood
Syntax
Biography
14. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Lyric
Allusion
Anapestic
Assonance
15. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Allusion
Character
Metaphor
Ambiguity
16. The main section of a long poem.
Canto
Foreshadowing
Dactylic
Caesura
17. 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.
Repetition
Rhetoric
Limerick
Sonnet
18. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Couplet
Tone
Symbol
Verb
19. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Haiku
Satire
Phrase
Conjunction
20. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Short story
Paradox
Novel
Phrase
21. 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.
Verb
Allusion
Dialect
Preposition
22. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Repetition
4 sentence types
Euphemism
Tone
23. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Internal rhyme
Pragmatics
Semantics
Elegy
24. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Iambic (foot)
Participle
Cliche
25. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Folktale
Free verse
Internal rhyme
Iambic (foot)
26. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Setting
Symbol
Pragmatics
Fantasy
27. U U '
verbal irony
Heroic couplet
Participle
Anapestic
28. 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
Apostrophe
Noun
Short story
Slang (diction)
29. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Anapestic
verbal irony
Verse
30. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Folktale
Protagonist
First Person
31. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Double speak
Transcendentalism
Fairy Tale
Repetition
32. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Novella
Foot
Allusion
Clause
33. 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.
Point of View
Camera view
Phonetics
Anecdote
34. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Adverb
Aphorism
Limited omniscient
Malapropism
35. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Slang (diction)
Double speak
Hubris
Tone
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 -
Stanza
Adverb
Tragedy
Transcendentalism
37. The study of the structure of sentences.
Heroic couplet
Syntax
Canto
Paradox
38. The telling of a story.
Narration
Verse
Antagonist
Hyperbole
39. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Onomatopoeia
Oxymoron
Heroic couplet
Sonnet
40. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Conflict
Participle
Sonnet
Anapestic
41. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Flashback
Connosance
Existentialism
Satire
42. 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.
Euphemism
Adjective
Epic
Parody
43. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo
Diction
Heroic couplet
Western
Assonance
44. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Setting
Fairy Tale
Assonance
Connotation
45. 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.
Pragmatics
Jargon (diction)
Participle
Myth
46. The study of the meaning in language.
Symbol
Couplet
Ballad
Semantics
47. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Third Person
Archaic (diction)
Verb
Pronoun
48. 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.
Article
Refrain
Anapestic
Fable
49. 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 .
Profanity (diction)
Hubris
Caesura
Dactylic
50. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Anapestic Meter
Moral
Narration
Verse