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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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






3. 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






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






5. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






6. 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






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






8. 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






9. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






10. 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.






11. 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.






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






13. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






15. 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






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






17. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






18. 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






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






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






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






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






23. 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






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






25. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






27. 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.






28. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






35. The perspective from which a story is told.






36. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






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






39. A contradictory statement that makes sense






40. The study of the meaning in language.






41. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






45. 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.






46. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






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






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






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