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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






2. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






4. A contradictory statement that makes sense






5. The telling of a story.






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






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






8. 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






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






10. 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






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






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






15. The study of the structure of words.






16. 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.'






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






20. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






27. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






28. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






29. 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






30. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






32. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






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






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






35. 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.






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37. A wise saying - usually short and written.






38. 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






39. The writer says one thing and means another






40. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






48. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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