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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

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






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






3. 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






4. Persuasive writing.






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






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






7. 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






8. 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.






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






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






11. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






12. 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.






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






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






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






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






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






23. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






25. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






26. U U '






27. The study of the meaning in language.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






40. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






41. 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.






42. 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.






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






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






45. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






46. 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.






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






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






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






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







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