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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






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






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






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






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






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






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






8. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






10. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






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






14. 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.






15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






16. The study of the orgin of words






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






19. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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






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






25. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






26. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






27. 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






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






29. A wise saying - usually short and written.






30. 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 -






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






32. 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






33. A person or being in a narrative






34. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






36. The study of the structure of words.






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






38. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.






39. 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






40. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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






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






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. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






50. 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