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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






2. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






3. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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5. 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.






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






7. 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






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






9. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






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






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






12. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






17. The study of the orgin of words






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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.






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






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25. The main section of a long poem.






26. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






28. 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 .






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






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






35. 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.






36. 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






37. The perspective from which a story is told.






38. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






41. The study of the meaning in language.






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






43. The study of the structure of words.






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






45. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






47. 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






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






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






50. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.