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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the structure of words.






2. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






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






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






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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.






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






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. 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






19. The writer says one thing and means another






20. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






21. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






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






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






27. A wise saying - usually short and written.






28. 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.






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






30. 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.






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






35. A suspenseful story that deals with a puzzling crime. Examples include Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Murder in Rue Morgue' and Charles Dickens' The Mystery of Edwin Drood.






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






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






38. 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.






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






40. The study of the orgin of words






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42. A narrative about human actions that is perceived by both the teller and the listeners to have taken place within human history and that possesses certain qualities that give the tale the appearance of truth or reality. Washington Irvin's The Legend






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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






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






48. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






49. 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






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







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