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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






2. 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.






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






4. 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






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






6. The perspective from which a story is told.






7. 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






8. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






9. 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






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






11. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






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






13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






14. ' U U






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






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






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






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






19. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






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






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






22. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






26. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






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






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






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






33. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






34. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






38. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






42. 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.'






43. 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.






44. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






45. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






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






47. The study of the structure of words.






48. 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 -






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






50. The study of the structure of sentences.