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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






2. 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.






3. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






10. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






11. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






12. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






13. 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






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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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






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






20. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






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






24. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






25. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






29. 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






30. Persuasive writing.






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






32. 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.






33. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






34. 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.'






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






36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






38. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






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






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






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






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44. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






50. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.







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