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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A group of words containing a subject and a predicate and forming part of a compound or complex sentence.






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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






7. 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






8. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






10. 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.






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






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






13. 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.






14. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






15. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






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






17. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






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






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






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






24. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






25. 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






26. A person or being in a narrative






27. The telling of a story.






28. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






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






30. 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






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






32. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






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






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






35. 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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37. 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






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






39. 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.






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






41. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






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






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






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






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






46. 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






47. A contradictory statement that makes sense






48. 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.






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






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