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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The main section of a long poem.






2. 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.






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






4. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






7. The perspective from which a story is told.






8. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






22. 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.






23. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






25. The study of the structure of words.






26. 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.






27. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






32. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






40. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






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






43. A story about a person's life written by another person.






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






45. 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






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






47. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






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






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






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







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