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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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






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






4. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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






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






9. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






12. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






13. 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






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






15. Persuasive writing.






16. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






17. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






20. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






21. 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.






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






23. 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.






24. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






25. 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.






26. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






27. The perspective from which a story is told.






28. 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






29. The telling of a story.






30. 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.






31. 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






32. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






33. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






49. 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






50. The study of the structure of sentences.