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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






2. 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.






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






4. An extended fictional prose narrative.






5. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






6. 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.






7. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






8. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






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






10. A wise saying - usually short and written.






11. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






13. 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.






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






15. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






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






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






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






19. 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






20. 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






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






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






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






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






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






27. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






28. 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.






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






31. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






32. 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.






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






34. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






35. 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.






36. 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 -






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






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






39. 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






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






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






46. 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.






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






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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.'