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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






5. The telling of a story.






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 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.






8. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






9. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






10. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






13. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






15. 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 -






16. The study of the meaning in language.






17. 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.






18. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






19. 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






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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






26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






27. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






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






29. 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.






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






31. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






32. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






33. U '






34. 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






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






36. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






38. U U '






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






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






41. 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.






42. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






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






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






46. 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.






47. The writer says one thing and means another






48. 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.






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






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