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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






2. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






10. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






12. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






23. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






25. 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.






26. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






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






28. A person or being in a narrative






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






30. A contradictory statement that makes sense






31. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






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






33. The study of the meaning in language.






34. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






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






37. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. The study of the structure of words.






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






43. 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






44. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






47. 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






48. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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. The telling of a story.