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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






4. 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






5. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






7. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






8. 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.






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






10. 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






11. The telling of a story.






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






13. 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






14. 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






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






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






17. 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.






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






19. The perspective from which a story is told.






20. 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






21. 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






22. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






26. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w






27. 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






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






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






30. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






33. ' U U






34. The story is told by someone outside the story.






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






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






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






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






39. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






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






42. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






43. 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.






44. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






46. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






50. A person or being in a narrative