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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






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






3. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






5. The study of the structure of words.






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






7. 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.






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






9. The main section of a long poem.






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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. 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.






14. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






17. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






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






19. A person or being in a narrative






20. Persuasive writing.






21. The perspective from which a story is told.






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23. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






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






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






26. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






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






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






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






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35. 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






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






37. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






44. The study of the structure of sentences.






45. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






46. 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






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






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






50. The writer says one thing and means another







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