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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. An extended fictional prose narrative.






2. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






9. The main character or hero of a written work.






10. 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






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






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






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






14. 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.'






15. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






17. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






18. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






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






20. 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.






21. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






22. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






23. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






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






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






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






27. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






28. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






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






42. 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.






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






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






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






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






47. The main section of a long poem.






48. 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.






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






50. 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