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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






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






6. 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






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






8. 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.






9. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






10. 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 -






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






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






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






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






15. 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






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






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






18. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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20. Persuasive writing.






21. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






22. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






25. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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. 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






29. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






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






35. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






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






37. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






38. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






42. The telling of a story.






43. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






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






48. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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







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