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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






2. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






3. 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.






4. 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






5. 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.






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






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






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






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. 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 -






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






22. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






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






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






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






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






27. A person's account of his or hew own life.






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






29. 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.






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






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






32. The study of the structure of words.






33. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






34. 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






35. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






36. 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






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






38. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






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






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






41. 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






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






43. 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.






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45. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






46. 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






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48. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






49. 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.






50. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.







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