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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






2. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






5. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






6. U U '






7. ' U






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






9. The writer says one thing and means another






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






11. 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






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






13. The study of the structure of sentences.






14. The perspective from which a story is told.






15. ' U U






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






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






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






19. 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.






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






21. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. The study of the structure of words.






29. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






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






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






32. 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






33. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






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






35. 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






36. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






38. 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.






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






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






41. 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.






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






43. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






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






50. 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