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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






2. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






3. A person or being in a narrative






4. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






5. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






6. 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.






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






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






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






11. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






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






13. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






14. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






18. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






19. 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






20. 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.






21. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






29. 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






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






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






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






33. 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.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






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






40. 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






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






42. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. The story is told by someone outside the story.