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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The perspective from which a story is told.






2. 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






3. 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.






4. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






5. 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.






6. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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






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






11. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. The study of the orgin of words






20. 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.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






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






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






27. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






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






29. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






30. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






34. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






38. A literacy device in which the author jumps back in time in the chronology of narrative.






39. A contradictory statement that makes sense






40. 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






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






42. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of one (or a few) character(s).






43. 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






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 word that connects other words or groups of words. Ex. In the sentence Bob and Dan are friends - the _____ 'and' connects two nouns and in the sentence.






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






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






48. 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






49. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






50. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.