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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






2. The study of the structure of sentences.






3. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






4. The perspective from which a story is told.






5. 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






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






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






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9. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






15. 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.






16. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






17. 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






18. 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






19. The study of the orgin of words






20. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






23. 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 .






24. 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.






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






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






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






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






30. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






32. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






34. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






38. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






43. 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






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






45. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






47. 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






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






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






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