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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






3. A person or being in a narrative






4. 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






5. The study of the orgin of words






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






7. 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.






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






9. 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 -






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






11. The perspective from which the story is told - four choices: first person; 3rd person (dramatic - objective); 3rd person omniscient; 3rd person limited omniscient.






12. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






13. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






15. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






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






33. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






36. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






38. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






39. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






40. 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.






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






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






43. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






44. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






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






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






47. 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.






48. 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.






49. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






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