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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A comparison of objects or ideas that appear to be different but are alike in some important way.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






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






8. 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.






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






11. 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.






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






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14. 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






15. A wise saying - usually short and written.






16. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






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






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






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






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






22. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






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






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






26. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






27. The study of the orgin of words






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






29. The study of the structure of words.






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






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






33. The telling of a story.






34. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






35. 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






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






37. The story is told by someone outside the story.






38. 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






39. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






40. 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.






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






42. 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.






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






44. 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.






45. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






46. 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.






47. 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






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 repetition of the same sound in words close to one another






50. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.