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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






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






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






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






6. Persuasive writing.






7. 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






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






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






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






11. The study of the structure of sentences.






12. 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.'






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






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






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






16. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






17. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






18. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.






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






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






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






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






23. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






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






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






27. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






29. 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.






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






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






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






34. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






35. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






36. The writer says one thing and means another






37. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






38. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






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






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






41. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






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






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






48. 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.






49. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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