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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A variation of a language used by people who live in a particular geographical area.






2. 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.






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






4. 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.






5. The writer says one thing and means another






6. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






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






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






10. A wise saying - usually short and written.






11. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






12. 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.






13. 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.






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






15. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






16. 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.






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






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






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






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






21. 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.






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






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






24. 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.






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






26. 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






27. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






31. 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.






32. 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.






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






34. 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.






35. The telling of a story.






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






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






38. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






39. During the mid -19th century in New England - several writers and intellectuals worked together to write - translate works - and publish. Their philosophy focused on protesting the Puritan ethic and materialism. They valued individualism - freedom -






40. The main section of a long poem.






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






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






43. 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.






44. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






45. A philosophy that values human freedom and personal responsibility. A few well known _______ writers are Jean - Paul Satre - Soren Kierkegaard ('the father of _______') - Albert Camus - Freidrich Nietzche - Franz Kafka - and Simone de Beauvoir.






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






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






48. Language that shows disrespect for others or something sacred.






49. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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