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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A literary technique in which the author gives hints or clues about what is to come at some point later in the story.






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






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






5. 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.






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






7. The study of the meaning in language.






8. A person or thing working against the hero of a literary work (the protagonist).






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






14. Expressions that are usually accepted in informal situations or regions - such as 'wicked awesome.'






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






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






17. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






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






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






20. A rhythmical pattern in verse that is made up of stressed and unstressed syllables.






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






22. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






24. 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.






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






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






27. A word which describes or gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. The lazy dog sat on the rug - the word lazy is an ____ which gives more information about the noun dog.






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






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






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






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






32. 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






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






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






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






36. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






38. 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






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






40. 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






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






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






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






44. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






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






48. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






49. The main section of a long poem.






50. Persuasive writing.







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