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






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. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






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






9. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






12. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






20. 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.






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






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






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






24. 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 .






25. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






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






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






30. 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.






31. The telling of a story.






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






36. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






41. 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.






42. The study of the orgin of words






43. U '






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






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






46. 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.






47. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






48. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






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






50. 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.