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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






2. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






4. 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.






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






6. An expression that has been used so often that it loses its expressive power






7. 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






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






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






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






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






12. 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.






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14. A contradictory statement that makes sense






15. The writer says one thing and means another






16. The narrator shares the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.






17. Old - fashioned words that are no longer used in common speech - such as thee - thy - and thou.






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






24. 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.






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






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28. 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






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






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






31. 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.'






32. 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






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






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






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






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






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






38. 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






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






42. 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






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






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






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46. 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






47. 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






48. A person or being in a narrative






49. The outcome or resolution of plot in a story.






50. 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.