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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A narrative that is made up of fantastic characters and creatures - such as witches - goblins - and fairies - and usually begins with the phrase 'Once upon a time...' Examples include Rapunzel - Cinderella - Sleeping Beauty - and Little Red Riding Ho






2. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






5. 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.






6. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






8. 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.






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






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






15. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






16. 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.






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






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






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






20. The use of words to create pictures in the reader's mind.






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






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






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






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






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






26. The role of context in the interpretation of meaning.






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






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






29. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






30. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






31. 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






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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






39. The study of the orgin of words






40. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






43. A literary device in which animals - ideas - and things are represented as having human traits.






44. A novel comprised of idealized events far removed from everyday life. This genre includes the subgenres of gothic ____ and medieval ____. Examples include Mary Shelly's Frankenstein - William Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida - and King Horn (anonym






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






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






47. The perspective from which a story is told.






48. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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