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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






4. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






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






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






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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 .






17. 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






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






19. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






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






21. 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.






22. 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 -






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






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






25. The perspective from which a story is told.






26. 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.






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






28. The main section of a long poem.






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






30. 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.






31. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






32. 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.






33. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






34. Persuasive writing.






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






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






37. U '






38. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






41. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






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






43. 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






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






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






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






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






48. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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