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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






4. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






5. 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.






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






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






8. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






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






10. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






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






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






13. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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 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.






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






24. 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






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






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.






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28. 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.






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






30. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






32. 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






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






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






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






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






37. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






39. The telling of a story.






40. 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.






41. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






43. 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






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






45. The study of the structure of words.






46. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






48. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






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






50. 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