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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






2. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






4. 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.






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






6. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






7. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






8. 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






9. 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.






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






11. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






14. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






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






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28. 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






29. 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.






30. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






31. The telling of a story.






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






40. 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






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






42. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






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






44. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






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






46. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






47. 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.






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






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






50. 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