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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






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






4. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






5. 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.






6. 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






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






8. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






9. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






11. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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16. The telling of a story.






17. A person or being in a narrative






18. 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






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






20. 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.






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






22. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






25. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






27. 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






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






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






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31. 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






32. 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.






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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






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






39. 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.






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






41. A word which names a person - place or thing. Ex. boy - river - friend - Mexico - triangle - day - school - truth - university - idea - John F. Kennedy - movie






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






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






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






45. An extended fictional prose narrative.






46. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






47. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






50. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.