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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






2. 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






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






4. 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






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






6. An extended fictional prose narrative.






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






13. 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.






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






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






16. The time and place in which the action of a story takes place.






17. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






21. 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






22. 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.






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






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






25. The study of the structure of sentences.






26. Also known as a run - on line in poetry - _____ occurs when one line ends and continues onto the next line to complete meaning. For example the first line in Thoreau's poem 'My life has been the poem I would have writ -' and the second line completes






27. A repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






28. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






29. 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






30. A contradictory statement that makes sense






31. 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.






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






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34. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. Literature - often drama - ending in a catastrophic event for the protagonist(s) after he or she faces several problems or conflicts.






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






41. 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






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43. 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.






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






45. A wise saying - usually short and written.






46. The perspective from which a story is told.






47. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






48. Persuasive writing.






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






50. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.