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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.






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






3. 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






4. 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 .






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






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






7. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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10. 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.






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Persuasive writing.






16. 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






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






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






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






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






21. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






23. A wise saying - usually short and written.






24. 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






25. 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






26. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






27. 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






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






29. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






30. 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.






31. A short narrative - usually between 50 and 100 pages long. Examples include George Orwell's Animal Farm and Franz Kafka's The Metamorphosis.






32. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






33. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






34. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






35. 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.






36. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






37. 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.






38. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






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






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






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






43. The study of the orgin of words






44. 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.






45. A method by which trained readers evaluate a piece of writing for its overall quality. There is no focus on one aspect of the writing.






46. 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.






47. 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.






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






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






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







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