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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






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






4. 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






5. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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8. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






11. 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.






12. 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.






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. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






17. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






20. The study of the structure of words.






21. 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






22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






25. 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






26. 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.






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






28. 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






29. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






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






35. 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.






36. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






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






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






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






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






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






42. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






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44. 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






45. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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






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






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






49. 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






50. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.