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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






3. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






9. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






16. The main section of a long poem.






17. 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.






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






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






20. An extended fictional prose narrative.






21. 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.






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






23. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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






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28. 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






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






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






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






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






33. 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.






34. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






36. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






37. The study of the structure of sentences.






38. The telling of a story.






39. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






40. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






42. 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.






43. 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






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






45. 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.






46. The study of the meaning in language.






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






48. 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.






49. 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 .






50. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.