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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Two or more words in sequence that form a syntactic unit that is less than a complete sentence.






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






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






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






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






6. 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.






7. 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.






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






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






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






12. The main section of a long poem.






13. 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






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






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






16. An expository piece written with eloquence that becomes part of the recognized literature of an era. Often reveal historical facts - the social mores of the times - and the thoughts and personality of the author. Some have recorded and influenced the






17. A brief story that illustrates or makes a point.






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






19. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. The flaw that leads to the downfall of a tragic hero; this term comes from the Greek word hybris - which means 'excessive pride.'






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






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






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






31. Persuasive writing.






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






33. 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.






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






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






36. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






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






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






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






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. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






43. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






45. 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.






46. 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.






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






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






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






50. 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.







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