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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






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






3. 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.






4. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






5. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






7. 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






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






17. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






18. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






20. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






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






23. ' U U






24. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






25. 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






26. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






27. A contradictory statement that makes sense






28. 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.






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






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






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






32. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






36. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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






44. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. 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






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