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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






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






9. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. The study of the orgin of words






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






18. The writer says one thing and means another






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






20. 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.






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






22. 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.






23. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






24. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






25. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. The study of the structure of words.






32. The study of the meaning in language.






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






34. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






36. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






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






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






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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