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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






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






4. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






5. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






6. 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






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






8. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






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






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






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






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






13. The main section of a long poem.






14. 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.






15. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






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






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






20. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.






21. ' U U






22. 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.






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






24. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






26. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






28. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






32. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






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






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






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






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






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






41. U U '






42. U '






43. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






46. 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






47. 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.






48. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






49. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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







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