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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






2. 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 .






3. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






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






6. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






9. ' U U






10. 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






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






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






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






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






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






16. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






17. The telling of a story.






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






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






20. 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.






21. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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.






26. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






27. 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






28. The study of the structure of words.






29. 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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






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






36. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






40. 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.'






41. 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.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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






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






49. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






50. 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 -







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