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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






2. 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.






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






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






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






13. 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.






14. 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






15. 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.






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






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






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






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20. 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.






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






22. The main section of a long poem.






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






24. 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






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






26. The study of the orgin of words






27. 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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






34. 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 -






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






36. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






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






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






39. 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






40. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






42. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






44. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






48. 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






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






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