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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.
Lyric
Apostrophe
Ballad
Blank verse
2. 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.
Conjunction
Ballad
Euphemism
Tone
3. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Transcendentalism
Participle
Voice
Alliteration
4. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Lyric
Tragedy
Biography
Antagonist
5. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Meter
Denouement
Apostrophe
6. 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
End rhyme
Antagonist
Preposition
7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Alliteration
Tone
Euphemism
Epic
8. 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.
Symbol
Science fiction
Meter
Existentialism
9. 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
Allegory
Western
Metaphor
Haiku
10. Persuasive writing.
Limerick
Rhetoric
Style
etymology
11. 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.
Preposition
Pronoun
Camera view
Allusion
12. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Free verse
Satire
Allegory
Setting
13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Aphorism
Tragedy
Internal rhyme
Morphology
14. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Participle
Setting
Autobiography
Conflict
15. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Tone
Aphorism
Dialect
Romance
16. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Foreshadowing
etymology
Vulgarity
Tone
17. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Setting
Dialect
Irony
Onomatopoeia
18. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Apostrophe
verbal irony
Personification
Phrase
19. 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
Jargon
Enjambment
Oxymoron
20. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Denotation
Participle
End rhyme
Jargon (diction)
21. 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.
Genre
Allusion
Haiku
Pronoun
22. ' U U
Dactylic
Assonance
Enjambment
Novel
23. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Third Person
Adjective
Paradox
Trochaic (foot)
24. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Heroic couplet
Adverb
Canto
Article
25. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Phonology
Rhetoric
Haiku
Ballad
26. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Analogy
Novel
Moral
Hyperbole
27. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Euphemism
Archaic (diction)
Alliteration
Denotation
28. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Slang (diction)
Essay
Limited omniscient
Connosance
29. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Onomatopoeia
Syntax
Fable
Imagery
30. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Allusion
Dialect
Symbol
Science fiction
31. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Moral
Assonance
Denouement
Cliche
32. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Jargon (diction)
Cliche
Pronoun
Euphemism
33. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
Stanza
Allusion
Setting
Omniscient
34. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Morphology
Aphorism
Moral
Archaic (diction)
35. 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
Myth
Epic
Adverb
Personification
36. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Participle
Autobiography
Novella
Heroic couplet
37. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Adjective
Genre
Hubris
Pragmatics
38. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Verse
Omniscient
Existentialism
Narrative Point of View
39. 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.
Flashback
Participle
Haiku
Hyperbole
40. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Euphemism
Article
Free verse
Participle
41. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Vulgarity
Archaic (diction)
Double speak
42. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Haiku
Conjunction
Dialect
Anecdote
43. 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.'
Couplet
Elegy
Setting
Denouement
44. The study of the structure of sentences.
Foot
Phonology
Syntax
situation irony
45. 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
Fable
Stanza
Myth
Sonnet
46. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.
Essay
Short story
Parody
Holistic Scoring
47. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Limited omniscient
Dialect
Hubris
Antagonist
48. 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
Horror
Tragedy
Short story
Preposition
49. 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.
Elegy
Personification
Participle
Myth
50. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Paradox
Genre
dramatic irony
Protagonist
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