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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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2. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






3. 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






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






5. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






6. 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






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






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






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






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






11. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






13. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






16. 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.






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






18. 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






19. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






20. 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






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






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






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






24. 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.






25. A contradictory statement that makes sense






26. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






29. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






31. 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






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.'






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






37. 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.






38. Persuasive writing.






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






40. 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






41. A person or being in a narrative






42. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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






44. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






46. 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






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






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






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






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