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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






2. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






4. 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.






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






6. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






7. Persuasive writing.






8. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






9. 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.






10. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






13. U '






14. 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.






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






16. The main section of a long poem.






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






18. 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






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






20. 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.'






21. The telling of a story.






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






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






24. 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






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






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






27. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






28. 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.






29. 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






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






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






32. 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.






33. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






34. 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.






35. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






42. The study of the orgin of words






43. 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.






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






45. 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






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






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






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






49. ' U






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