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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






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






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






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






5. 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






6. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






7. 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






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






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10. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






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






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






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






14. 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.






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






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






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






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






19. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






20. 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.'






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






22. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






23. 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 .






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






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






26. The telling of a story.






27. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






30. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






33. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






34. The main section of a long poem.






35. The writer says one thing and means another






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






37. 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.






38. 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.






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






41. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






43. 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






44. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






45. 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






46. A person or being in a narrative






47. The study of the meaning in language.






48. 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.






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






50. The study of the structure of sentences.