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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






2. The reader sees a character's errors - but the character does not






3. The time and place in which a story occurs.






4. 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.






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






6. The story is told by someone outside the story.






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






8. 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.






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






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






12. 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






13. An extended fictional prose narrative.






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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.






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






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






20. 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.






21. 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






22. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.






23. The perspective from which a story is told.






24. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






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






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






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






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






30. 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 .






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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






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






37. The telling of a story.






38. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






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






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






49. The main section of a long poem.






50. 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.