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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






2. ' U






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






4. An extended fictional prose narrative.






5. 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 -






6. 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.






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






8. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






9. 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.






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






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






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






13. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






14. 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






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






16. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.






17. 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.






18. 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






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






20. The telling of a story.






21. 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.






22. The main section of a long poem.






23. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






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






27. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






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






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






30. 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.






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






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






33. U '






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






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






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






37. 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.






38. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.