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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The study of the sounds of language and their physical properties.






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






3. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






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






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






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






7. The writer says one thing and means another






8. 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.






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






10. 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.






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






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






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






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15. 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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






21. A word which can be used instead of a noun. Ex instead of saying John is a student - the ____ he can be used in place of the noun John and the sentence becomes He is a student.






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






23. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






24. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






26. 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.






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






28. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






29. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






36. 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






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






38. Literature that makes fun of social conventions or conditions - usually to evoke change.






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






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






41. 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






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






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






44. 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






45. A type of pun - or play on words - that results when two words become mixed up in the speaker's mind






46. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






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