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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






13. Narrative fiction that involves gods and heroes or has a theme that expresses a culture's ideology. Examples of Greek ______ include Zeus and the Olympians and The Trojan War. Roman ______ include Hercules - Apollo - and Venus.






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






15. The writer says one thing and means another






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






17. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






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






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






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






21. 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






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






23. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






24. 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






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






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






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






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






29. 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






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. 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.






32. The study of the meaning in language.






33. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






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






35. 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.






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






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






38. 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






39. Persuasive writing.






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






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






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






43. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






46. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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