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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






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






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






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






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






6. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






8. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






9. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. 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.






15. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






18. Persuasive writing.






19. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






21. 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.






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






23. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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






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






26. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






27. 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






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






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






30. 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






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






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






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






34. U U '






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






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






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






38. A contradictory statement that makes sense






39. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






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






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






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






44. 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.






45. The telling of a story.






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






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






48. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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