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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






3. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






4. 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






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






6. 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.






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






8. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






9. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






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






11. 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.






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






13. The telling of a story.






14. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






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






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






17. 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






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






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






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






22. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






25. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






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






32. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






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






34. 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.






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






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






38. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w






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






40. A contradictory statement that makes sense






41. 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 .






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






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






44. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






45. The study of the structure of words.






46. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






50. 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.