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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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






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






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






6. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






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






9. 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.






10. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






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15. The study of the structure of sentences.






16. 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.






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






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






19. 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.






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






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






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






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






24. A wise saying - usually short and written.






25. 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.






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






27. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






30. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






31. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






32. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






33. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






34. 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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. 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.






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






41. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






42. Informal language used by a particular group of people among themselves.






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






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






45. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






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






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






48. The study of the orgin of words






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






50. 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.