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






3. 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






4. 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.






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






7. 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






8. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






10. A person's account of his or hew own life.






11. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.






12. 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.






13. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






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






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






17. The telling of a story.






18. 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.






19. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






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






24. 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 .






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






26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






27. 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.






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






29. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






30. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






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






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39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






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






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






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






47. 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.






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






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






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