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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.
Characterization
Participle
4 sentence types
Pronoun
2. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Limerick
Legend
Preposition
3. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Dactylic
Couplet
Symbol
Limerick
4. 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
Plot
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Euphemism
Internal rhyme
5. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.
Foreshadowing
Profanity (diction)
Sonnet
Genre
6. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Euphemism
Science fiction
Alliteration
Article
7. 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.
Preposition
Narration
Semantics
Anapestic Meter
8. 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
Hubris
Voice
Sonnet
Foot
9. 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
etymology
Imagery
Conflict
10. 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.
etymology
Romance
Horror
Denouement
11. 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.
dramatic irony
Holistic Scoring
Noun
Romance
12. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.
Anecdote
Flashback
Moral
Fable
13. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Horror
Heroic couplet
Novel
Mystery
14. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Analogy
Verb
etymology
dramatic irony
15. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Hyperbole
End rhyme
Refrain
Verb
16. 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
Anecdote
Novella
Anapestic
17. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Verse
dramatic irony
Denotation
18. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.
Voice
Limited omniscient
Internal rhyme
Connotation
19. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
dramatic irony
Morphology
Euphemism
Historical fiction
20. 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.
Plot
Stanza
Fairy Tale
Character
21. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Cliche
etymology
Vulgarity
Parody
22. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.
Symbol
Phonetics
Antagonist
Moral
23. 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
Horror
Essay
Ballad
Flashback
24. 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
Hyperbole
Pronoun
Onomatopoeia
25. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.
Autobiography
Tragedy
Analogy
Western
26. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Archaic (diction)
Voice
Denotation
Denouement
27. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'
Hubris
Elegy
verbal irony
Onomatopoeia
28. The study of the meaning in language.
Conflict
Semantics
Paradox
Repetition
29. 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.
Parody
Adjective
Foot
Canto
30. 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
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Haiku
Novella
31. U '
Oxymoron
Antagonist
Iambic (foot)
Couplet
32. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.
Article
Metaphor
Horror
dramatic irony
33. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Aphorism
Euphemism
Pronoun
Assonance
34. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.
Setting
Pragmatics
Conflict
Document (letter - diary - journal)
35. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dactylic
Lyric
Novel
Dialect
36. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.
Moral
Mood
Conjunction
Sonnet
37. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Fairy Tale
Onomatopoeia
4 sentence types
Horror
38. 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
4 sentence types
Holistic Scoring
Third Person
39. 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.
Phonology
Canto
Science fiction
Biography
40. 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.
Existentialism
Verb
Third Person
Euphemism
41. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Limited omniscient
Elegy
Noun
Dialect (diction)
42. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Voice
Mood
Assonance
Autobiography
43. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.
Double speak
Tone
Anapestic
Anecdote
44. 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.
Dialect
Conflict
Conjunction
Morphology
45. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Tone
Legend
Couplet
Semantics
46. 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.
Style
Elegy
Limerick
Third Person
47. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Connotation
Adverb
Metaphor
48. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.
Limited omniscient
Free verse
Historical fiction
Novel
49. 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
Alliteration
Plot
Romance
50. U U '
Profanity (diction)
Moral
Anapestic
Haiku