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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






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






3. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






7. 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.






8. The telling of a story.






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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. 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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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.'






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






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






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






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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.






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






26. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






28. 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






29. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






30. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






32. 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






33. 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






34. The study of the structure of words.






35. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






36. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






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






39. The study of the structure of sentences.






40. 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.






41. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






42. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. 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.






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






47. A contradictory statement that makes sense






48. 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.






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






50. A wise saying - usually short and written.