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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






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






3. The study of the structure of sentences.






4. The telling of a story.






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






6. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






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






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






12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






15. The time and place in which a story occurs.






16. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






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






18. A wise saying - usually short and written.






19. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






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






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. 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.






23. 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






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






25. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






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






27. U U '






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






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






30. 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






31. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






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






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






34. The study of the orgin of words






35. The study of the meaning in language.






36. 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.






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






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






40. The main section of a long poem.






41. 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






42. ' U U






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






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






45. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






47. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






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






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






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






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