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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the structure of words.






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






3. Persuasive writing.






4. 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.






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






14. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






16. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






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






20. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






21. A wise saying - usually short and written.






22. 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






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






24. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






26. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






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






28. 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.






29. 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






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






31. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






32. 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.






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






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






35. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






36. 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.






37. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






39. 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






40. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






41. 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






42. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






43. The perspective from which a story is told.






44. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






45. 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






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






47. 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






48. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






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. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.