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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






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






4. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






10. 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 -






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






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






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






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






15. 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






16. 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.






17. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






18. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






25. 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.






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






27. An extended fictional prose narrative.






28. 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.






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. The main section of a long poem.






39. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






40. A person or being in a narrative






41. ' U U






42. 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.






43. 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 .






44. U U '






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






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






47. The study of the meaning in language.






48. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






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






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