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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






2. 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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






11. 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 -






12. 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.






13. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






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






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






17. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






18. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






19. 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.






20. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






24. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






25. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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






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






29. The study of the structure of words.






30. 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






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






32. 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.






33. 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.'






34. A wise saying - usually short and written.






35. 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






36. The study of the orgin of words






37. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






38. 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.






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






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






41. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






42. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






48. The writer says one thing and means another






49. 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.






50. 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