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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The structure of a work of literature; the sequence of events.






2. 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.






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






5. A person or being in a narrative






6. 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.






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






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






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






10. 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.






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






12. The telling of a story.






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






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. 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.






17. The writer says one thing and means another






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






20. A word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






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






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






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






24. The study of the structure of words.






25. 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.






26. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






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






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






30. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






31. 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






32. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. 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.






39. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






40. 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.'






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






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






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






50. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.