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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






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






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






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






6. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






13. 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 -






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






15. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






16. 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.






17. 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






18. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. A wise saying - usually short and written.






26. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






27. 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






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






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






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






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






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






33. 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






34. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






36. The telling of a story.






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






38. 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.






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






40. Persuasive writing.






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






42. 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






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






44. 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 .






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






46. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






47. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






48. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






49. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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