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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






8. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






9. 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






10. The study of the structure of sentences.






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






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






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






17. 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






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






19. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






22. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






23. The set of associations implied by a word in addition to its literal meaning.






24. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






26. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






28. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






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






30. 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.






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






32. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






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






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






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






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






39. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






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






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






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






45. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






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






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






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






49. The writer says one thing and means another






50. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.