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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Setting
Genre
Article
Autobiography
2. The perspective from which a story is told.
Internal rhyme
Pronoun
Jargon
Point of View
3. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Limerick
Allusion
Existentialism
Paradox
4. 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.
Sonnet
Phonology
Horror
Enjambment
5. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Simile
Verb
Dialect (diction)
Voice
6. 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
Onomatopoeia
Sonnet
Jargon
Pronoun
7. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Foreshadowing
dramatic irony
Phrase
Slang (diction)
8. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Trochaic (foot)
Mood
4 sentence types
Meter
9. 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.
Hyperbole
Autobiography
Moral
First Person
10. 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
Dialect (diction)
Foreshadowing
End rhyme
11. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
First Person
Symbol
Double speak
Science fiction
12. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Western
Colloquialisms (diction)
Imagery
13. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.
Slang (diction)
Phonology
Euphemism
End rhyme
14. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.
Historical fiction
Article
Free verse
Ballad
15. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Camera view
Repetition
Flashback
Jargon (diction)
16. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Sonnet
Heroic couplet
Slang (diction)
Iambic (foot)
17. 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.
Jargon
Transcendentalism
Euphemism
Science fiction
18. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Pragmatics
Caesura
Tragedy
verbal irony
19. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Rhythm
Jargon (diction)
Flashback
Imagery
20. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Enjambment
Satire
Vulgarity
Dialect (diction)
21. 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
Autobiography
situation irony
Essay
Voice
22. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
verbal irony
Archaic (diction)
End rhyme
Clause
23. 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.
First Person
Protagonist
Colloquialisms (diction)
Adjective
24. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Meter
Characterization
Denotation
Parody
25. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
etymology
Euphemism
Voice
Style
26. 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.
Onomatopoeia
Refrain
Stanza
Rhythm
27. 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.
Noun
Preposition
Malapropism
Essay
28. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes
Dialect
Enjambment
Euphemism
Personification
29. The main character or hero of a written work.
Personification
Trochaic (foot)
Protagonist
Heroic couplet
30. The study of the meaning in language.
Anecdote
Mood
Free verse
Semantics
31. 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
etymology
Anapestic Meter
Jargon
Short story
32. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Paradox
Lyric
Iambic (foot)
Dialect
33. 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
Participle
Camera view
Fantasy
Protagonist
34. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'
Autobiography
Alliteration
Style
Iambic (foot)
35. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels
Connosance
Science fiction
Alliteration
Rhythm
36. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Aphorism
Narrative Point of View
Phrase
37. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Pragmatics
Diction
Foot
Dialect
38. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Enjambment
Novel
Personification
Phonetics
39. 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
Adjective
verbal irony
Legend
40. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
Verb
Conflict
Jargon (diction)
41. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area
Style
Foot
Jargon (diction)
Onomatopoeia
42. 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
Verb
Foreshadowing
Anapestic Meter
Euphemism
43. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Plot
Moral
Blank verse
44. 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.
Myth
Profanity (diction)
Simile
Antagonist
45. 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
Connosance
Metaphor
Apostrophe
Allegory
46. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.
Horror
Onomatopoeia
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Romance
47. 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
Internal rhyme
Lyric
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Foot
48. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Romance
Couplet
Vulgarity
Camera view
49. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Protagonist
Foreshadowing
Verse
Denotation
50. 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.
Preposition
Existentialism
Haiku
Stanza
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