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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






5. 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.






6. The perspective from which a story is told.






7. The study of the structure of sentences.






8. 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.






9. 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.






10. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






12. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






14. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






16. 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






17. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






18. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






20. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






21. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






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






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






24. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






28. A person or being in a narrative






29. The main section of a long poem.






30. 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.






31. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






32. 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.






33. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






36. 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






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






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






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






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






41. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






42. 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.






43. The study of the orgin of words






44. 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






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






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






48. 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.






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






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