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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






2. 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






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






4. The study of the structure of words.






5. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






9. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.






10. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






23. The telling of a story.






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






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






26. 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






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






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






29. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






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






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






33. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






36. ' U






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






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






50. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.