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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






2. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






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






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






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






9. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






10. 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






11. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






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






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






18. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






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






20. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






23. 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.'






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






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






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






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






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






30. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






32. 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.






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






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






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






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






37. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






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






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






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






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






42. 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






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






44. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






45. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. 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 .






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