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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






3. 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






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






12. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






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






14. The telling of a story.






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






16. 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.






17. 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






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






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






20. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






21. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes






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






23. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






24. 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






25. 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






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






27. 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.






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






32. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






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






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






35. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






37. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






39. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






41. The writer says one thing and means another






42. 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






43. 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






44. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






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






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






47. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






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






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






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