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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. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






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






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






6. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






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






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






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






11. 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






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






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






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






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






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






17. The main section of a long poem.






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






23. Fiction that is intended to frighten - unsettle - or scare the reader. Often overlaps with fantasy and science fiction. Examples include Stephen King's The Shining - Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes.






24. A person or being in a narrative






25. 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.






26. 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.






27. 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.






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






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






30. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






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






39. ' U U






40. 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






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






42. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






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






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






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






46. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






48. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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