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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






2. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






3. 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.






4. 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.






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






6. 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






7. 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






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






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






10. 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 .






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






12. 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






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






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






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






17. The study of the structure of words.






18. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl






19. 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






20. The main section of a long poem.






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






22. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.






23. 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.






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25. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






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






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






31. The telling of a story.






32. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






45. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






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






48. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






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






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