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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Persuasive writing.






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






3. A person or being in a narrative






4. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






5. 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.






6. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






7. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






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






10. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






16. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






18. 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.






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






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






21. ' U U






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






23. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






25. The perspective from which a story is told.






26. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






27. A contradictory statement that makes sense






28. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






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






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






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






32. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






34. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






35. 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.






36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






37. 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






38. 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 .






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






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






41. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






42. 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






43. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






44. 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






45. 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.






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






47. 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.






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






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






50. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.