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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






2. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






4. 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.'






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






6. An extended fictional prose narrative.






7. 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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9. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






11. The study of the meaning in language.






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






13. The study of the structure of sentences.






14. 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.






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






16. 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.






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






27. 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






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






29. 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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






36. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






37. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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 -






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






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






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