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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






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






3. 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.






4. 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






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






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7. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






8. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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10. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






13. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






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






24. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






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






35. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






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






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






38. An extended fictional prose narrative.






39. 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.






40. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






49. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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