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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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2. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






6. The story is told by someone outside the story.






7. 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.






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






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






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






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






12. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






14. 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






15. A wise saying - usually short and written.






16. 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






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






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






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






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






21. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






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






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






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






26. The main section of a long poem.






27. 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.






28. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.






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






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






31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






32. The telling of a story.






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






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






35. 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.






36. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






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






42. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






44. 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






45. 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.






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. 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.






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






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






50. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E