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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






2. A person or being in a narrative






3. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






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






6. 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.






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. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. The main section of a long poem.






14. 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 .






15. 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.






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






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. The writer says one thing and means another






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






22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






24. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






25. The study of the meaning in language.






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






27. 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






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






29. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






30. 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






31. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






32. The perspective from which a story is told.






33. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






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






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






36. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






40. 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.






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






42. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






44. The telling of a story.






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






46. 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






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






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






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






50. A contradictory statement that makes sense