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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






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






3. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






4. 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.






5. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






8. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






11. The writer says one thing and means another






12. 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.






13. 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






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






19. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.






20. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes






21. The telling of a story.






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






23. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl






24. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






26. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






27. 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.






28. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






29. 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.






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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






35. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






37. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






43. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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







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