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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






2. 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.






3. Distinctive features of a person's speech and speech patterns.






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






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






6. 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






7. The repetition of initial consonant sounds in words - such a 'Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.'






8. 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.






9. A novel set in the western U.S. featuring the experiences of cowboys and frontiersmen. Examples include Zane Grey's Riders of the Purple Sage and Trail Driver - Larry McMurty's Lonesome Dove - Conrad Richter's The Sea of Grass - Fran Striker's The Lo






10. Persuasive writing.






11. 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.






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






13. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






14. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






15. A wise saying - usually short and written.






16. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






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






19. A story in which people (or things or actions) represent an idea or a generalization about life. Usually have a strong lesson or moral.






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






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. ' U U






23. A contradictory statement that makes sense






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






35. 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






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






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






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






39. A type of Japanese poem that is written in 17 syllables with three lines of five - seven - and five syllables - respectively. Expresses a single thought.






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






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






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






43. 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.'






44. The study of the structure of sentences.






45. 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






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






48. 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






49. 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.






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







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