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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






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






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






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






6. 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






7. 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.






8. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






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






10. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






11. The use of a word or phrase to mean the exact opposite of its literal or expected meaning. There are three types....Dramatic - Verbal - Situation.






12. 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






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






14. 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.






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






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






17. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






18. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






25. 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.






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






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






28. 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.






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






30. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






31. 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.






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






33. 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






34. 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






35. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






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






37. The main section of a long poem.






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






39. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






42. 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






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






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45. 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 -






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






47. The telling of a story.






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






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






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