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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short poem - often written by an anonymous author - comprised of short verses intended to be sung or recited.






2. The feeling a text evokes in the reader - such as sadness - tranquility - or elation.






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4. 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.






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






6. 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.






7. A fourteen - line poem - usually written in iambic pentameter - with a varied rhyme scheme. Two main types are Petrarchan (or Italian) and the Shakespearean (or English). A Petrarchan opens with an octave that states a proposition and ends with a ses






8. 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






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






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






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






12. The study of the structure of words.






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






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






15. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






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






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






19. A phrase that consists of two contradictory terms






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






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






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






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






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






25. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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27. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






28. 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.






29. 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.






30. How the author uses words - phrases - and sentences to form ideas.






31. 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.






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33. A person or being in a narrative






34. The most specific or direct meaning of a word - in contrast to its figurative or associated meanings.






35. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






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






41. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






43. 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.






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






45. 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.






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






47. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






48. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






49. A pair of lines of poetic verse written in iambic pentameter.






50. Verse that contains an irregular metrical pattern and line length; also known as vers libre.







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