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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. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






5. The study of the structure of words.






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






7. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






11. 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






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






13. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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






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






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






18. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






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






20. 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






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 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






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






24. 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






25. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






26. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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33. 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






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






35. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






37. 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.






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






39. 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.'






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






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






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






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






44. 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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.