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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the meaning in language.






2. 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.






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. The perspective from which a story is told.






8. A person or being in a narrative






9. The study of the orgin of words






10. 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






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






12. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






14. 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






15. 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.






16. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






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






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






19. 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.






20. A wise saying - usually short and written.






21. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






24. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






26. 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






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






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






29. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






30. 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.






31. The study of the structure of sentences.






32. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. The telling of a story.






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






43. 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.






44. The study of the structure of words.






45. The main section of a long poem.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






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