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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






3. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






5. 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






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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






13. 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 .






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






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






16. 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






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






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






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20. 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






21. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






23. 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.






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






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






26. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






29. 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






30. 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.






31. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






33. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






35. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






37. 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.






38. The study of the structure of words.






39. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. 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.






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






47. 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






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






49. 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.






50. 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