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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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2. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






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






5. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






7. 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






8. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






10. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






11. 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.






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






13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






14. 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






15. 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






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






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






18. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






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






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






21. The writer says one thing and means another






22. 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






23. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






26. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






27. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






28. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






29. 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.






30. 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.






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






32. 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






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






34. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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






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






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






49. Persuasive writing.






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