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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






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






7. 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.






8. 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






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






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






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






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






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






14. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






16. 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






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. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






19. 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.






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






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






22. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






26. 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.






27. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






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






32. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






33. 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






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35. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






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






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






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






40. 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.






41. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






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






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






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46. 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.






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






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






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






50. The main section of a long poem.