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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A story about a person's life written by another person.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






7. 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.






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






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






10. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.






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






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






13. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






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






15. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






25. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






26. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w






27. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






28. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






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






31. 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






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






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






34. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






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






36. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






38. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






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






40. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






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






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






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






45. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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






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