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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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 -






2. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






4. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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.






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






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






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






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13. The main character or hero of a written work.






14. 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






15. 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.






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






17. The main section of a long poem.






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19. The study of the meaning in language.






20. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






23. 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






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






25. A verb form that usually ends in - ing or - ed.






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






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






28. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. The study of the structure of sentences.






38. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






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






40. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






44. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






45. A wise saying - usually short and written.






46. 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.






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






48. 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.






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50. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a







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