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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






2. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






6. Persuasive writing.






7. 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






8. 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.






9. The telling of a story.






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






11. The perspective from which a story is told.






12. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






14. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






15. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






17. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






19. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






20. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.'






30. The study of the orgin of words






31. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






33. 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.






34. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






38. The study of the meaning in language.






39. 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






40. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






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






42. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






43. 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






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






45. 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 .






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






47. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






49. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






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