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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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6. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






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8. 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.






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






10. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






11. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






12. The study of the structure of sentences.






13. 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 -






14. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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






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






18. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






19. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






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






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






22. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






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






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






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






33. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






37. The story is told by someone outside the story.






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






39. 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.






40. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






43. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






47. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






48. 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






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






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