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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






6. 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






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






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






9. A contradictory statement that makes sense






10. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






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






12. The writer says one thing and means another






13. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. The study of the meaning in language.






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






19. 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






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






21. 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






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






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






24. The story is told by someone outside the story.






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






26. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






29. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






30. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






31. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






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






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






41. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes






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






43. 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.






44. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






46. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






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






48. 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.






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






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