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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






3. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






5. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






6. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.






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






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






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






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






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






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






14. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






15. The study of the structure of sentences.






16. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.






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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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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26. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






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






32. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






34. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






38. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






40. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






41. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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