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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






3. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






4. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






6. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






8. 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.






9. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






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






14. The telling of a story.






15. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






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20. 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






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






23. 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.






24. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






25. 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.






26. 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.






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






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






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






30. 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






31. 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






32. 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






33. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






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






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






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






47. 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






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






49. 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






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