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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The main character or hero of a written work.






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






3. 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






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






5. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






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






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






10. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. 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.






17. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






19. 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.






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






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






22. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






24. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






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






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. The telling of a story.






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






33. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






44. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






45. 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.'






46. The analysis of how sounds function in a language or dialect.






47. The writer says one thing and means another






48. 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






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






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