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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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






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






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






8. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. The perspective from which a story is told.






12. 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






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14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






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






22. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






23. 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






24. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






25. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






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






27. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






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






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






30. 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






31. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






32. An extended fictional prose narrative.






33. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






35. The study of the structure of words.






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






37. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






41. 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.'






42. 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 -






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






44. 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






45. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






49. Persuasive writing.






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







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