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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






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






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






12. Persuasive writing.






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






15. A person or being in a narrative






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






17. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. The main section of a long poem.






21. 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 -






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






23. 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.






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 story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






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






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






29. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






38. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






40. 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






41. An extended fictional prose narrative.






42. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






43. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






47. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






48. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






49. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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