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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






2. 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.






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






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






5. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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15. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






18. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






19. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






23. The main section of a long poem.






24. 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






25. 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.






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






27. 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






28. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






34. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






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






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






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. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. 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






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






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






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






46. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






47. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






48. A wise saying - usually short and written.






49. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






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