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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






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






4. Persuasive writing.






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






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






7. ' U U






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






9. The telling of a story.






10. 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






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






12. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






13. 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 -






14. 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.






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






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






17. 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






18. A contradictory statement that makes sense






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






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






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






24. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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.






31. 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.






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






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






34. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






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






36. The writer says one thing and means another






37. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






38. 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






39. 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.






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






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






42. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






44. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






47. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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