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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






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3. 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.






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






5. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






6. 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






7. 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.






8. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






9. 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






10. An extended fictional prose narrative.






11. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






12. Persuasive writing.






13. 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






14. 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.






15. A person or being in a narrative






16. The study of the structure of sentences.






17. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






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






21. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. A contradictory statement that makes sense






29. 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






30. 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






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






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






33. The perspective from which a story is told.






34. 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.






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






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






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






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






39. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.






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






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






47. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






48. 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






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






50. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses