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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






2. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






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






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






5. A person or being in a narrative






6. 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.






7. 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.






8. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






9. 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






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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






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






20. ' U






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






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






23. The perspective from which a story is told.






24. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. The study of the orgin of words






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






30. 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






31. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.






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






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






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






35. 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






36. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






37. 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.






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






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






40. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






41. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






42. 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






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






44. Persuasive writing.






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






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






47. The writer says one thing and means another






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






49. 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.






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