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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. The telling of a story.






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






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






10. The study of the orgin of words






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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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






17. 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.'






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






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






20. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






21. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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






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






25. ' U U






26. The study of the structure of sentences.






27. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






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






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






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






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






37. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






38. 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.






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






40. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






41. 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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






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






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






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






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






49. The perspective from which a story is told.






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







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