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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






2. 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 -






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






4. 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






5. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






10. 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






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






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






13. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






14. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






15. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






17. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






19. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






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






21. A person or being in a narrative






22. 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






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






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






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. The study of the meaning in language.






30. The perspective from which a story is told.






31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. The main section of a long poem.






35. 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






36. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.






37. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






40. An extended fictional prose narrative.






41. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






42. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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






44. 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.






45. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






46. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






47. 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






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






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