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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person's account of his or hew own life.






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






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






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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






13. 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 .






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






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






16. The study of the meaning in language.






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






18. A person or being in a narrative






19. Persuasive writing.






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






21. 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






22. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






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






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






27. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






28. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






29. 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.'






30. 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.






31. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






35. 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.






36. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






38. 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.






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






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






42. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






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






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






46. 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






47. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






48. 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






49. The telling of a story.






50. 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.