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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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praxis
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1. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Connosance
Oxymoron
Pragmatics
Archaic (diction)
2. 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
Participle
Essay
Iambic (foot)
3. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Participle
Phonetics
Setting
4. 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
Frame tale
Article
Elegy
Clause
5. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Tone
Phonetics
Rhythm
6. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Myth
Foot
Fairy Tale
7. 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
Metaphor
Fairy Tale
Apostrophe
Syntax
8. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event
Article
Metaphor
Allusion
Fantasy
9. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.
Conjunction
Hubris
Euphemism
Dialect
10. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Haiku
Omniscient
Limited omniscient
Folktale
11. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Setting
Onomatopoeia
Satire
Dialect
12. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Protagonist
Dialect
Caesura
13. 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
Dialect (diction)
Repetition
Novel
14. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Phrase
Myth
Diction
Rhetoric
15. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Allusion
End rhyme
Plot
Verb
16. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.
Setting
Narrative Point of View
Dialect
Tragedy
17. The study of the orgin of words
etymology
Holistic Scoring
Flashback
Setting
18. The time and place in which a story occurs.
Frame tale
Phrase
Syntax
Setting
19. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.
Denotation
Heroic couplet
Novel
Mystery
20. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.
Voice
Narration
Frame tale
Preposition
21. 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
4 sentence types
Epic
Adverb
Moral
22. 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.
Colloquialisms (diction)
Hyperbole
Stanza
Science fiction
23. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Hubris
Parody
Frame tale
Transcendentalism
24. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not
Free verse
Assonance
dramatic irony
Haiku
25. The study of the structure of sentences.
Paradox
Personification
Noun
Syntax
26. 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
Morphology
Symbol
Enjambment
Short story
27. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Assonance
Phrase
Dactylic
Allusion
28. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Parody
Onomatopoeia
Mood
Oxymoron
29. 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
Biography
Style
Article
Romance
30. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Internal rhyme
Paradox
Antagonist
Connotation
31. 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.
Malapropism
Existentialism
Euphemism
Ballad
32. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.
Western
Repetition
Elegy
Holistic Scoring
33. U '
Connosance
Romance
Adjective
Iambic (foot)
34. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Archaic (diction)
Aphorism
Phonology
Style
35. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.
Archaic (diction)
Allegory
Antagonist
Narration
36. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.
Morphology
Denouement
Omniscient
Historical fiction
37. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.
Dactylic
Refrain
Pragmatics
Allegory
38. 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.
Syntax
Allegory
Irony
Legend
39. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.
Tragedy
Stanza
Sonnet
Allusion
40. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.
Semantics
Simile
Plot
Horror
41. 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
Setting
Novella
Sonnet
Transcendentalism
42. ' U
Transcendentalism
Foot
Trochaic (foot)
Free verse
43. 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.
Limerick
Allusion
situation irony
Article
44. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.
Legend
Aphorism
Allusion
Meter
45. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Stanza
Aphorism
Allegory
Limerick
46. The perspective from which a story is told.
Syntax
Caesura
Point of View
Character
47. 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
Allusion
Participle
Vulgarity
Essay
48. Persuasive writing.
Dialect
Tone
Adverb
Rhetoric
49. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.
Fantasy
Dialect
Tone
Oxymoron
50. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Genre
Antagonist
Myth
End rhyme