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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






2. A turn from the general audience to address a specific group of persons (or a personified abstraction) who is present of absent. For example - in a recent performance of Shakespeare's Hamlet - Hamlet turned to the audience and spoke directly to one w






3. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






5. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






6. 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.






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






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






9. The telling of a story.






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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






14. The study of the orgin of words






15. 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






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






17. 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






18. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






28. 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.






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






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






31. 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.






32. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






35. 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






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






37. 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






38. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






39. 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






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






41. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






45. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






46. 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.






47. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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