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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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






2. The writer says one thing and means another






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. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






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






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






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8. A person or being in a narrative






9. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






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






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






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






19. The perspective from which a story is told.






20. 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






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






22. 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






23. 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.'






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






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






26. 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






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






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






33. 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.






34. 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.






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






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






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






38. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






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






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






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






43. 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.






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






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. The telling of a story.






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






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






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






50. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.