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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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2. A story about a person's life written by another person.






3. A wise saying - usually short and written.






4. The perspective from which a story is told.






5. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






7. A contradictory statement that makes sense






8. A word which shows action or state of being. Ex. In the sentence The dog bit the man - bit is the ____.






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






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






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






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






13. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






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






20. 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






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






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






23. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






24. Specialized language used in a particular field or content area






25. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






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






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






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






32. A person or being in a narrative






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






34. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






35. 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






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






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






39. 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






40. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






41. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. 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






46. 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






47. 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






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






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






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