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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






3. 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.






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






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






6. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






8. 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






9. 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.






10. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






11. 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.






12. Persuasive writing.






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






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 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.






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






17. 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






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






19. The telling of a story.






20. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






23. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






25. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






26. 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 -






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






28. U U '






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






30. A contradictory statement that makes sense






31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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






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






35. 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.






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






37. 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.






38. 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.'






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






40. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






46. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






47. The study of the meaning in language.






48. An extended fictional prose narrative.






49. The writer says one thing and means another






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







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