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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






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






3. 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.






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






5. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






6. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






7. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






8. 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.






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






10. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






14. 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






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






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






17. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






22. 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






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






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






25. 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.






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






27. 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.






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






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






30. 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






31. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






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






33. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






34. 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 .






35. The study of the structure of sentences.






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37. 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.






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






39. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. The telling of a story.






47. The study of the meaning in language.






48. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






49. The study of the orgin of words






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