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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






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






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






7. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






8. 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






9. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






12. 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.






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14. A contradictory statement that makes sense






15. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






16. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






25. 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






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






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






28. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. 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.






37. 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.






38. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






39. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






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. 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.






45. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






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






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






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






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






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