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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind
Style
Clause
Novella
Malapropism
2. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Sonnet
Plot
Moral
Mystery
3. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
First Person
Tone
Assonance
4. 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.
Mystery
Mood
Syntax
Dialect
5. 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
Foot
Article
Point of View
Caesura
6. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Romance
Dialect
Oxymoron
Simile
7. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Internal rhyme
Dactylic
Archaic (diction)
Conflict
8. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo
Setting
Protagonist
Essay
Phrase
9. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Allegory
Setting
Blank verse
Phrase
10. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Phonology
Denouement
Participle
Repetition
11. 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
Refrain
Irony
Euphemism
Sonnet
12. 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.
Limerick
Tone
Analogy
Semantics
13. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Pronoun
Narrative Point of View
Legend
Analogy
14. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Lyric
Flashback
Dialect (diction)
Horror
15. 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.
Denotation
Myth
Preposition
Anapestic
16. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Metaphor
Parody
Refrain
Meter
17. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Metaphor
Essay
Euphemism
Historical fiction
18. 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.
etymology
Existentialism
Dactylic
Camera view
19. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
Semantics
Mood
Hubris
20. The study of the orgin of words
Setting
Ballad
Verse
etymology
21. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Onomatopoeia
Article
Voice
Allusion
22. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
4 sentence types
Repetition
Onomatopoeia
23. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Morphology
Meter
Conflict
Blank verse
24. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E
Fantasy
Limerick
Narration
Character
25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Stanza
Rhetoric
Narrative Point of View
26. 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.
Western
Existentialism
Conjunction
Diction
27. ' U U
Satire
Irony
Dactylic
Internal rhyme
28. 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 .
Phonology
Caesura
dramatic irony
Characterization
29. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.
Heroic couplet
Science fiction
Participle
Phonology
30. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Double speak
Mood
Imagery
Enjambment
31. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Anapestic Meter
situation irony
Tone
Sonnet
32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Limerick
Jargon
Metaphor
Irony
33. 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
Mood
Sonnet
Epic
Dactylic
34. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Ambiguity
Legend
Assonance
Syntax
35. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Third Person
Participle
Fantasy
Allusion
36. The telling of a story.
Irony
Conflict
Colloquialisms (diction)
Narration
37. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Trochaic (foot)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Allusion
Verb
38. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Phonetics
Moral
Symbol
Sonnet
39. The study of the meaning in language.
Tragedy
Colloquialisms (diction)
Semantics
Slang (diction)
40. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Jargon (diction)
Historical fiction
Existentialism
Short story
41. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Narrative Point of View
Hubris
Foot
42. The story is told by someone outside the story.
Ballad
etymology
Third Person
Parody
43. 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.
Semantics
Irony
Morphology
dramatic irony
44. 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
Heroic couplet
Jargon
Conjunction
45. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Euphemism
Limited omniscient
Novella
4 sentence types
46. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Verb
Genre
Heroic couplet
Connosance
47. The writer says one thing and means another
Foreshadowing
Voice
Analogy
verbal irony
48. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Oxymoron
Verse
Repetition
Cliche
49. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Repetition
dramatic irony
4 sentence types
50. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Conjunction
Morphology
Sonnet
Plot
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