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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the meaning in language.






2. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






10. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






11. 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.






12. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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20. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






22. An extended fictional prose narrative.






23. 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.






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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