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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






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






3. An extended fictional prose narrative.






4. 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.






5. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






7. 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






8. 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






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






10. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






11. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






12. 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.






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14. 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 .






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. 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 -






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






24. The writer says one thing and means another






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. 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






29. The study of the structure of words.






30. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






31. 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.






32. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






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






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






35. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






36. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






37. The main section of a long poem.






38. 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






39. 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






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






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






42. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






43. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






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






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






47. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






48. 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.'






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






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






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