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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






6. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






15. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






16. 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.






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. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






19. A person or being in a narrative






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






21. 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.






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






24. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






26. 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 .






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






28. The main section of a long poem.






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






30. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






31. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






34. 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.






35. 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.






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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.






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






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. 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.






44. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






50. 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