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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






3. The study of the structure of sentences.






4. 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






5. A contradictory statement that makes sense






6. 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






7. Repetition of the final consonant sound in words containing different vowels






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






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






10. 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






11. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






12. 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






13. 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.






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






15. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 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






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






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






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






23. 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.






24. 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.






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. 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






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






28. 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.






29. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






30. Deals with current or future development of technological advances. Examples are Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse - Five - George Orwell's 1984 - Aldous Huxley's Brave New World - and Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451.






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






32. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






36. A story about a person's life written by another person.






37. The main character or hero of a written work.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






45. The study of the structure of words.






46. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






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






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






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