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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the orgin of words






2. 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






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






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






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






6. U U '






7. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






8. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






9. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






11. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






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






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






16. The main character or hero of a written work.






17. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






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






20. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






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






23. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






24. The main section of a long poem.






25. 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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. A contradictory statement that makes sense






29. 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.






30. 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.






31. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






33. 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.






34. A wise saying - usually short and written.






35. ' U






36. 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






37. A humorous verse form of five anapestic (Composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented) lines with rhyme scheme of aabba.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






47. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






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






49. 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.






50. 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 .







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