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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






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






4. A person or being in a narrative






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






7. 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






8. The telling of a story.






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






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






11. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






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






13. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






15. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






18. 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.






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






20. The writer says one thing and means another






21. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






22. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






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






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






29. 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 .






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






31. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






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






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






34. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






35. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






42. 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






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






44. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






47. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






49. The study of the orgin of words






50. The study of the structure of words.