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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Persuasive writing.






2. The perspective from which a story is told.






3. 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.






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






5. 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.






6. 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






7. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






10. 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






11. 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.






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






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






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






15. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






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






17. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






18. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






19. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






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






22. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






23. 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.






24. 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






25. 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






26. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






27. 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.






28. The study of the meaning in language.






29. 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.






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






31. 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






32. 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.'






33. 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






34. 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 .






35. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






36. The main character or hero of a written work.






37. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






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






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40. 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






41. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. The repetition of a line or phrase of a poem at regular intervals - particularly at the end of each stanza.






47. The study of the structure of words.






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






49. An extended fictional prose narrative.






50. 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