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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






2. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






4. 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.






5. 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






6. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






7. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






8. 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






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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






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






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






15. A word which shows relationships among other words in the sentence. The relationships include direction - place - time - cause - manner and amount Ex. In the sentence He came by bus - 'by' is a _____ which shows manner.






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






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






18. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






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






20. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






23. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






24. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






26. 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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28. 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 .






29. 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.






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






31. The purpose of a particular action differs greatly from the result






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






33. 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






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






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






36. The telling of a story.






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






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






39. The study of the meaning in language.






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






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






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






43. 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.






44. 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.






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






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






47. The writer says one thing and means another






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






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






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







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