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Praxis Middle School Language Arts
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1. 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.
First Person
Style
Ambiguity
Mystery
2. The study of the structure of sentences.
Antagonist
Syntax
Anapestic Meter
Ambiguity
3. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms
Symbol
Oxymoron
Verb
Morphology
4. The perspective from which a story is told.
Folktale
Point of View
Mood
Diction
5. 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
Character
Foot
Hyperbole
Third Person
6. A person's account of his or hew own life.
Genre
Conflict
Autobiography
Moral
7. A story about a person's life written by another person.
Setting
Biography
Vulgarity
Allusion
8. U '
Malapropism
Refrain
Iambic (foot)
Setting
9. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.
Slang (diction)
verbal irony
Rhythm
Setting
10. 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
Participle
Conflict
Third Person
11. 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.
Stanza
Hubris
Fairy Tale
Article
12. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.
Haiku
Camera view
Verb
Euphemism
13. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).
Elegy
Denotation
Antagonist
Tragedy
14. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.
Meter
Moral
Genre
Adjective
15. 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.
Anecdote
Rhythm
Trochaic (foot)
Irony
16. 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.
Adjective
Adverb
Conjunction
Aphorism
17. 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)
Symbol
Fairy Tale
Stanza
18. 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
Tragedy
Trochaic (foot)
Euphemism
Plot
19. The study of the orgin of words
Denouement
Alliteration
etymology
Setting
20. An extended fictional prose narrative.
Novel
Document (letter - diary - journal)
End rhyme
Limerick
21. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.
Narration
Denotation
Horror
Science fiction
22. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.
Dialect (diction)
Haiku
Connotation
Anapestic Meter
23. 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 .
Novel
Caesura
Legend
Pronoun
24. 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.
Phonetics
Anapestic Meter
Preposition
Setting
25. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.
Pronoun
Article
Personification
Allusion
26. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.
Diction
Heroic couplet
Clause
Refrain
27. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.
Limited omniscient
Anapestic Meter
Morphology
Parody
28. 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.
Parody
Conjunction
Dactylic
Science fiction
29. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).
Rhythm
Participle
4 sentence types
Clause
30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.
Morphology
Transcendentalism
Holistic Scoring
Blank verse
31. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.
Ballad
situation irony
Apostrophe
Style
32. A wise saying - usually short and written.
Denotation
Parody
Ballad
Aphorism
33. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.
Plot
Profanity (diction)
Clause
Symbol
34. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.
Denouement
Mystery
Couplet
Fantasy
35. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.
Anapestic
Stanza
Denouement
Genre
36. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.
Imagery
Folktale
Sonnet
Syntax
37. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.
Dialect
Anapestic Meter
Oxymoron
Trochaic (foot)
38. A contradictory statement that makes sense
Fantasy
Allusion
Paradox
Transcendentalism
39. The story is told from the point of view of one character.
Mood
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Free verse
First Person
40. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.
Noun
Profanity (diction)
Connosance
Folktale
41. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.
Antagonist
Cliche
End rhyme
Narration
42. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.
Characterization
Flashback
Tone
Ambiguity
43. 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
Fantasy
Hyperbole
Sonnet
Flashback
44. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).
Anecdote
Personification
Dialect (diction)
Limited omniscient
45. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.
Camera view
Anecdote
Internal rhyme
Paradox
46. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.
Lyric
Foot
Characterization
Dactylic
47. 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
Oxymoron
Semantics
Romance
48. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.
Allusion
Couplet
Pragmatics
Verb
49. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another
Satire
Phonetics
Pragmatics
Assonance
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Diction
Trochaic (foot)
Document (letter - diary - journal)
Dactylic
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