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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






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






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






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






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






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






7. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






9. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






10. The main section of a long poem.






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






20. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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






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






30. The study of the structure of words.






31. The writer says one thing and means another






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33. Persuasive writing.






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






35. 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






36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






38. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






45. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






46. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






48. 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






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






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