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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






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






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






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






5. 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






6. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






8. 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






9. A contradictory statement that makes sense






10. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






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






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






13. The perspective from which a story is told.






14. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






17. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






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






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






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






21. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






22. 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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






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






27. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






28. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






29. 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.'






30. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






31. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






32. 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.






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. Persuasive writing.






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






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






37. 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.






38. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. 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






50. 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.