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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






2. 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






3. The writer says one thing and means another






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






5. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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7. The study of the orgin of words






8. The study of the structure of sentences.






9. 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.






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11. 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.






12. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






13. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






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






15. 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.'






16. 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.






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






18. The study of the meaning in language.






19. 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






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






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






22. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






23. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






24. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






27. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






30. The study of the structure of words.






31. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






32. 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.






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34. 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






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






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






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






38. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






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






40. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






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






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






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






46. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






47. 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 .






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






49. 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.






50. An extended fictional prose narrative.