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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






2. 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






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






4. 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






5. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






9. 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.






10. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






11. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






14. 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






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






16. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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.






23. 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






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






26. 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 -






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






29. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






30. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






31. 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.






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33. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






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






39. The perspective from which a story is told.






40. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






41. 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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. 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






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






50. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.