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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






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






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






5. 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






6. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






11. A person - place - thing - or event used to represent something else - such as the white flag that represents surrender.






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






13. 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






14. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






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






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






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19. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






27. 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.






28. A person or being in a narrative






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






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






31. 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.






32. The perspective from which a story is told.






33. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






37. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






40. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






41. 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






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






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






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






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46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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






50. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.