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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






7. Persuasive writing.






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






9. The telling of a story.






10. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






11. 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.






12. 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






13. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






14. 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






15. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






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23. The main section of a long poem.






24. An extended fictional prose narrative.






25. 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






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






27. The perspective from which a story is told.






28. A wise saying - usually short and written.






29. 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






30. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






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






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






33. 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






34. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






35. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






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






37. 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






38. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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 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.






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






44. 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.






45. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






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






50. 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.