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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






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






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






4. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






13. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






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






18. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






19. A poem that is a mournful lament for the dead. Examples include William Shakespeare's 'Eligy' from Cymbeline - Robert Louis Stevenson's 'Requiem -' and Alfred Lord Tennysone's 'In Memoriam.'






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






22. 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.






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






24. 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






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






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






27. A person's account of his or hew own life.






28. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






37. A category of literature defined by its style - form - and content.






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






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40. ' U






41. The writer says one thing and means another






42. The study of the structure of words.






43. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






46. A person who opposes or competes with the main character (protagonist); often the villain in the story.






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






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






49. 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






50. 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







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