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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






3. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






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






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






7. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






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






9. 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






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. The study of the orgin of words






16. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






19. 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.






20. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






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






25. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






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






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






30. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






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32. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






36. A wise saying - usually short and written.






37. An extended fictional prose narrative.






38. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






39. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






40. 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






41. 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.






42. 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






43. A story about a person's life written by another person.






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. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






47. 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.






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






49. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






50. Persuasive writing.