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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






3. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






5. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






9. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. An extended fictional prose narrative.






35. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






41. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






42. 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.






43. The perspective from which a story is told.






44. 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.






45. Persuasive writing.






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






48. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






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