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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






2. 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






3. 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.






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






5. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






7. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






10. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






15. 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






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






17. 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






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






19. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






21. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






22. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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






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






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






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






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






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






34. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






39. A person or being in a narrative






40. The main section of a long poem.






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42. The telling of a story.






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






44. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






45. 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.






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






47. The study of the orgin of words






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






49. 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.






50. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms