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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.'






2. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






3. A person's account of his or hew own life.






4. 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






5. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






6. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






7. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






8. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






9. 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






10. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






11. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






12. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






13. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






14. The main section of a long poem.






15. 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.






16. 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






17. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






18. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






19. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






20. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






21. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






22. 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.






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24. A contradictory statement that makes sense






25. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






26. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






27. 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 .






28. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






29. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






30. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






31. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






32. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






33. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






34. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






35. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






36. 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.






37. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






38. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






39. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






40. 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.






41. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






42. A story about a person's life written by another person.






43. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






44. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






45. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






46. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






47. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






48. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






49. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






50. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo