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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






8. U U '






9. The telling of a story.






10. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






12. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






15. 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.






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






17. 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






18. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






22. 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 .






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






24. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






27. A long narrative poem detailing a hero's deeds. Examples include The Aenied by Vergil - The Illiad and The Odyssey by Homer - Beowulf - Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes - War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy - Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - and Hiawath






28. The study of the orgin of words






29. A person or being in a narrative






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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






34. 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






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






36. An extended fictional prose narrative.






37. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






40. 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.






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






42. ' U U






43. 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






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






45. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






46. ' U






47. 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.






48. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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