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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the structure of sentences.






2. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






3. 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






4. A person or being in a narrative






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






6. The telling of a story.






7. 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.






8. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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10. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






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






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






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






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






17. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






19. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






20. 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






21. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






24. 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






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






26. 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






27. 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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. The main section of a long poem.






31. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






32. Persuasive writing.






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






34. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






35. 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.






36. 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 .






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






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






39. 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.






40. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






42. 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






43. 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.






44. 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.






45. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






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






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






48. 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






49. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






50. 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