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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






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






4. 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.






5. The telling of a story.






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






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






8. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. The main section of a long poem.






14. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






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






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






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






18. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






26. ' U






27. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






29. A person or being in a narrative






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






31. 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.






32. 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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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






37. 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.'






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






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






40. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






41. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. A wise saying - usually short and written.






48. 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.






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






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