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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






2. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






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






7. The main section of a long poem.






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






9. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






15. 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.






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






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






18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






19. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






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






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






23. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






24. 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.






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






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






27. 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.






28. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






35. 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






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






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






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






39. 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 .






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






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






42. 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






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44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. 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.'