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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. The overall feeling created by an author's use of words.






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






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






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






5. A division of poetry named for the number of lines it contains...Couplet: Two - lines - Triplet: Three - lines - Quatrain: Four - lines - Quintet: Five - lines - Sestet: Six- lines - Septet: Seven - lines - Octave: Eight - lines.






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






8. The story is told from the point of view of one character.






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






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






11. A person or being in a narrative






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






13. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






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






17. 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






18. 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.






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






21. 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.'






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






23. A figure of speech in which a comparison is implied but not stated - such as 'This winter is a bear.'






24. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






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






26. 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.






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






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






29. A kind of adjective which is always used with and gives some information about a noun. There are only two _____ a and the.






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






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






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






36. 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






37. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






38. 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.






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






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






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






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






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






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






45. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






46. A contradictory statement that makes sense






47. The specialized language of a particular group or culture. Ex. in the field of education...rubric - tuning protocol - and deskilling.






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






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






50. 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