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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






2. Persuasive writing.






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






4. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






5. The study of the meaning in language.






6. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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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17. The main character or hero of a written work.






18. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






21. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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






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32. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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






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






39. 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






40. 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






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






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






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50. 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