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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person or being in a narrative






2. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






3. 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






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






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






6. Persuasive writing.






7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






8. The time and place in which a story occurs.






9. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






11. The writer says one thing and means another






12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






13. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






14. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






16. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






17. The telling of a story.






18. 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






19. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






20. The perspective from which a story is told.






21. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






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






23. 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 -






24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






26. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






27. 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.






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






29. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






30. 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






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






32. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






33. 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.






34. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






35. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






37. 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.






38. 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.'






39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






40. 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 .






41. 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.






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






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44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






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






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






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