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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






2. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






17. 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 -






18. Persuasive writing.






19. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






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






23. 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.'






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






25. The study of the orgin of words






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27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






33. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






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






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






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






37. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






38. 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.






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






40. 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.






41. 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 .






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






47. 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






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






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






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