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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






3. 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.






4. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






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6. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.






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






8. 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






9. 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






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






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






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






13. 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






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






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






16. 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.'






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






18. The telling of a story.






19. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






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






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






26. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






27. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






29. The perspective from which a story is told.






30. 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.






31. 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






32. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






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






35. The study of the meaning in language.






36. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






39. 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 .






40. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






41. 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 -






42. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






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






44. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






45. 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.






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






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






48. 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.






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






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