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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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6. 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






7. 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






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






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






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






11. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






13. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






14. 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






15. 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.






16. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






20. The study of the meaning in language.






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






22. The telling of a story.






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






30. 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






31. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






32. 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.'






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






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






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. 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 -