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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






2. 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.






3. The study of the meaning in language.






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






5. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






8. A person or being in a narrative






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






10. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






13. 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.






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15. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






18. 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






19. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






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






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23. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. 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.






40. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






42. 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






43. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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






45. 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.






46. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






47. A wise saying - usually short and written.






48. 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.






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






50. 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