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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






2. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






4. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






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






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






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






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






9. 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






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






11. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






13. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






21. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






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. 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






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






25. 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






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. A contradictory statement that makes sense






32. 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.






33. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






35. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






39. 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.






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






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






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






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49. The main section of a long poem.






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