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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






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






4. 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.






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






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






7. 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 .






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






9. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






11. 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.






12. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






14. 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






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






16. 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






17. 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.






18. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






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






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






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






23. A metric line of poetry. Its name is based on the kind and number of feet composing it ('foot').






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






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






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






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






28. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo






29. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






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






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






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






39. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






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






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. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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