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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






4. The study of the structure of sentences.






5. 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






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






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






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






10. 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






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 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.






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






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20. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






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






22. 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.






23. The writer says one thing and means another






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






25. 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






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






27. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






28. A contradictory statement that makes sense






29. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






31. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






32. 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






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






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






35. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






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






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






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






40. Persuasive writing.






41. 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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






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






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






50. An extended fictional prose narrative.