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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






3. 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






4. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






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






6. The telling of a story.






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






8. 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.






9. 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






10. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. Persuasive writing.






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






21. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






22. 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






23. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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26. 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.






27. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






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






38. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






40. 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.






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






42. The perspective from which a story is told.






43. 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






44. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






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






46. 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.






47. 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.'






48. The main section of a long poem.






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






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