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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






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






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






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






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






7. 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.






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






9. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






11. 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






12. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






13. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






20. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






21. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






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






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






25. 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.






26. 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.'






27. 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.






28. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






36. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






40. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






41. A contradictory statement that makes sense






42. 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






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






45. 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






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






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






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






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






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