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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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2. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






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






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






6. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






8. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






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






10. 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.






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






12. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






13. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






14. 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






15. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






16. The study of the orgin of words






17. 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.






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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28. 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






29. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






31. The telling of a story.






32. 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






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






34. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






37. 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






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






39. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






47. 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






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






49. The study of the meaning in language.






50. A person or being in a narrative






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