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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






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






4. 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






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






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






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






8. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






10. Meter that is composed of feet that are short - short - long or unaccented - unaccented - accented - usually used in light or whimsical poetry - such as limerick.






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






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






13. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






21. 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






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






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






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






25. Narrative fiction that is set in some earlier time and often contains historically authentic people - places - or events






26. 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.






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






28. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






29. The telling of a story.






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






31. A person or being in a narrative






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






33. 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.






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






35. 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






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






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39. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






43. Persuasive writing.






44. 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.'






45. 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.






46. 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.






47. 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






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






49. The main section of a long poem.






50. 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.