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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. An extended fictional prose narrative.






2. 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






3. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






6. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






10. 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.






11. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






12. 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






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






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






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






16. The study of the orgin of words






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






18. The study of the structure of words.






19. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






24. 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.






25. 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.






26. Persuasive writing.






27. 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.






28. 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






29. 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






30. 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.






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






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






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






34. 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






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






36. 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.






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. 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 .






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






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






47. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






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






50. 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