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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






2. The telling of a story.






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






4. 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.






5. ' U U






6. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






8. 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






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






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






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






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






13. The study of the structure of sentences.






14. The writer says one thing and means another






15. The study of the meaning in language.






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






17. 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






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






19. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






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






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






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






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






24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






26. The study of the orgin of words






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






28. 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






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






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






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






32. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






34. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






35. 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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






42. 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.






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






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






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






46. The perspective from which a story is told.






47. 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 -






48. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






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






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