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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






2. 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.






3. 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.






4. The writer says one thing and means another






5. 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.






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






7. 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.






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






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






10. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






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






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






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






15. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






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






18. 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






19. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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






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






26. 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






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






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






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






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






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






35. 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.'






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






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






38. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






39. The study of the structure of words.






40. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






44. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






45. U U '






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






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






48. Persuasive writing.






49. 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






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







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