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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






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






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






5. 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.






6. The writer says one thing and means another






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






8. The time and place in which a story occurs.






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






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






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






12. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






15. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






17. 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.






18. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






20. A person or being in a narrative






21. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






22. 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.






23. The study of the structure of sentences.






24. 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






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






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






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






28. 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.'






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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






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






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






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40. 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






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






42. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






43. The main character or hero of a written work.






44. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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







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