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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






3. 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






4. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






5. 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






6. The writer says one thing and means another






7. 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 -






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






9. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






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






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






12. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






14. 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






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






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






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






18. 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






19. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






20. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






21. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






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






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






26. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






28. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






30. A brief fictional prose narrative. Examples include Shirley Jackson's 'The Lottery -' Washington Irving's 'Rip van Winkle' D.H. Lawrence's 'The Horse Dealer's Daughter -' Arthur Conan Doyle's 'Hound of the Baskervilles -' and Dorothy Parker's 'Big Bl






31. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






32. 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






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






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






37. 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






38. 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.






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






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






41. A text or performance that imitates and mocks an author or work.






42. The study of the structure of words.






43. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






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






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






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






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






49. 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.






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