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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






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






3. 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






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






5. The study of the structure of words.






6. The perspective from which a story is told.






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






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






31. A person or being in a narrative






32. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






34. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






37. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






39. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






40. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.'






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






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






47. 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






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






49. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






50. 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.