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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






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






6. 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 .






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






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






9. 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.






10. 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






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12. 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.






13. An extended fictional prose narrative.






14. 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






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






16. 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.






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






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






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 writer says one thing and means another






21. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






23. 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.






24. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






26. 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.






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






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






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






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






31. The study of the meaning in language.






32. 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.






33. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






34. 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.






35. The telling of a story.






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37. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






38. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






39. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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






41. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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45. 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.






46. The main section of a long poem.






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






48. 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.






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






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