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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

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1. 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.






2. 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.'






3. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






4. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






5. 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






6. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






7. 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






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






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






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






11. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






12. 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






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






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






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






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






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






18. 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






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






20. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






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






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






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24. The writer says one thing and means another






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






26. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






30. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






41. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






44. 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 .






45. 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






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






47. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






50. 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







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