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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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






12. The study of the structure of words.






13. 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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






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






22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






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. The writer says one thing and means another






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






29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






30. 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






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






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






33. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






35. 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.






36. 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






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






38. 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.'






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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 -






44. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






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






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






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






48. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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







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