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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






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






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






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






13. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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






15. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






16. 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






17. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






18. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






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






24. 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.






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






26. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl






27. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






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






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






30. A person or being in a narrative






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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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






35. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






36. 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.






37. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






39. The main section of a long poem.






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






41. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






42. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






43. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






44. 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.






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46. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






48. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






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






50. 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.