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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Conflict
Slang (diction)
Malapropism
Jargon
2. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Meter
Romance
Simile
End rhyme
3. 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
Fable
Mystery
Novel
Short story
4. The main character or hero of a written work.
Verse
Protagonist
Setting
Rhythm
5. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Protagonist
Imagery
Enjambment
6. 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
Foreshadowing
Enjambment
Pragmatics
Biography
7. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Onomatopoeia
Semantics
Dialect
Iambic (foot)
8. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.
Archaic (diction)
Phrase
Personification
Sonnet
9. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Frame tale
Colloquialisms (diction)
Couplet
Profanity (diction)
10. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Imagery
Limited omniscient
Diction
Romance
11. 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.
Irony
Science fiction
Anapestic Meter
Existentialism
12. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Historical fiction
Paradox
Antagonist
Foreshadowing
13. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.
End rhyme
Malapropism
Archaic (diction)
Oxymoron
14. 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
Legend
Character
Cliche
Phonetics
15. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Vulgarity
Ambiguity
Novel
4 sentence types
16. 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 -
Anapestic
Heroic couplet
Transcendentalism
verbal irony
17. ' U U
Parody
Limited omniscient
Dactylic
Lyric
18. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.
Characterization
Irony
Limited omniscient
Jargon
19. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Adjective
Symbol
verbal irony
Allegory
20. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Adverb
Heroic couplet
Pronoun
Limerick
21. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.
Legend
Satire
Slang (diction)
Frame tale
22. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result
Rhythm
Narrative Point of View
situation irony
4 sentence types
23. 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)
Fairy Tale
Omniscient
Euphemism
24. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.
Antagonist
Phonology
Slang (diction)
Adverb
25. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').
Verse
Rhetoric
Phonology
Camera view
26. 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.
Point of View
Metaphor
Phonetics
Mystery
27. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Oxymoron
Rhetoric
Tragedy
Foot
28. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Repetition
Setting
Character
Denotation
29. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
situation irony
Protagonist
Aphorism
30. 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
Iambic (foot)
Apostrophe
Anapestic Meter
Slang (diction)
31. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Cliche
Blank verse
Iambic (foot)
Hubris
32. 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
Romance
Euphemism
verbal irony
Paradox
33. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Connotation
Refrain
Plot
Autobiography
34. 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.
Myth
Science fiction
Iambic (foot)
Holistic Scoring
35. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.
Archaic (diction)
verbal irony
Symbol
Omniscient
36. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.
Repetition
Fairy Tale
Clause
Haiku
37. 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.
Legend
Elegy
Refrain
Preposition
38. Persuasive writing.
Rhetoric
Legend
Tone
Limited omniscient
39. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Blank verse
Paradox
Personification
Genre
40. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Symbol
Slang (diction)
Lyric
Couplet
41. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.
Article
Narration
Pronoun
Narrative Point of View
42. The study of the structure of words.
Parody
Malapropism
Limited omniscient
Morphology
43. 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
Alliteration
Tone
Ballad
Foot
44. 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
etymology
Anapestic Meter
Alliteration
45. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Vulgarity
Science fiction
Colloquialisms (diction)
Participle
46. 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.
Connosance
Onomatopoeia
Denouement
Camera view
47. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Stanza
Science fiction
Personification
Dialect
48. 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
Essay
Diction
Foot
Irony
49. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Adverb
Rhythm
Denouement
Allusion
50. The study of the meaning in language.
Syntax
Transcendentalism
Blank verse
Semantics
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