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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






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






6. The main section of a long poem.






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






8. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






9. 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 -






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






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






12. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






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. The time and place in which a story occurs.






20. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






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






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






23. 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.






24. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






29. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






31. 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.






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






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






34. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






36. The study of the meaning in language.






37. The writer says one thing and means another






38. The study of the orgin of words






39. 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






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






41. 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






42. 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






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






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






45. 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.






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






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






48. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






49. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






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