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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. 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.
Archaic (diction)
Verb
verbal irony
Myth
2. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Meter
Style
Jargon
Adjective
3. 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
Anecdote
Connosance
Fantasy
Fairy Tale
4. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Hyperbole
Morphology
Tragedy
Omniscient
5. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Satire
Clause
Free verse
6. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Essay
Allegory
Preposition
Antagonist
7. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power
Third Person
Voice
Participle
Cliche
8. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Hyperbole
Archaic (diction)
Moral
9. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Clause
Heroic couplet
Pronoun
Syntax
10. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Haiku
Anecdote
Dialect
Symbol
11. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Foreshadowing
Dialect
Slang (diction)
Biography
12. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.
Symbol
Participle
Epic
Ambiguity
13. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
4 sentence types
Phonetics
Mystery
Couplet
14. The telling of a story.
Novella
Western
Narration
Protagonist
15. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Limited omniscient
Jargon
Legend
Malapropism
16. 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.
Setting
Stanza
Clause
Style
17. 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
First Person
Euphemism
Romance
Allegory
18. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Syntax
Mystery
Connotation
Dialect
19. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Apostrophe
Style
Hubris
Semantics
20. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Phrase
Novella
Analogy
Assonance
21. 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
Limited omniscient
Style
Plot
Enjambment
22. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie
Vulgarity
Noun
situation irony
Narrative Point of View
23. 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.
Anapestic Meter
Folktale
Archaic (diction)
Voice
24. 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
Short story
Repetition
Ambiguity
Hyperbole
25. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym
Diction
Anapestic
Romance
Allusion
26. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events
Dialect
Myth
Double speak
Historical fiction
27. 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.
Assonance
Hubris
Novella
Pronoun
28. 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.
Simile
Irony
Metaphor
Romance
29. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'
Metaphor
Enjambment
Verse
Third Person
30. 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.
Science fiction
Fable
Holistic Scoring
Pragmatics
31. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Autobiography
Adverb
Archaic (diction)
Denouement
32. 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 -
Transcendentalism
dramatic irony
Aphorism
Preposition
33. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Character
Slang (diction)
Sonnet
Mood
34. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Fantasy
Euphemism
Biography
Narrative Point of View
35. The study of the structure of sentences.
Syntax
Noun
Novel
End rhyme
36. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Western
Tone
Free verse
Verb
37. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novella
Novel
Setting
Character
38. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Lyric
Caesura
Camera view
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.
Assonance
Article
Allegory
Third Person
40. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Euphemism
Double speak
Anapestic
Novella
41. The writer says one thing and means another
Document (letter - diary - journal)
verbal irony
Phonetics
Western
42. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend
Folktale
Foot
Syntax
Legend
43. 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
Apostrophe
Holistic Scoring
Plot
First Person
44. 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.'
Connotation
Elegy
etymology
Phonetics
45. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'
Verse
Caesura
Stanza
Colloquialisms (diction)
46. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.
Personification
Meter
Tone
Novella
47. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em
Narrative Point of View
Paradox
Frame tale
Free verse
48. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
situation irony
Syntax
Elegy
Heroic couplet
49. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Denouement
Verse
Setting
Plot
50. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Phrase
Parody
Verse
Allegory