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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






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






3. A reference to a familiar person - place - thing - or event






4. The use of sound words to suggest meaning - as in buzz - click - or vroom.






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






6. The study of the structure of words.






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






8. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






10. A genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot - theme - and/or setting. Examples include J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings - C.S. Lewis' The Chronicles of Narnia - and William Morris' The Well at the World's E






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






19. 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.






20. 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.






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






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






23. The study of the orgin of words






24. 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






25. Persuasive writing.






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






31. A comparison of two unlike things - usually including the word like or as.






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






33. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






34. 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.'






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






36. 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.






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






38. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






39. 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.






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41. 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.






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






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






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






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 study of the structure of sentences.






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






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






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






50. The act or an example of substituting a mild - indirect - or vague term for one considered harsh - blunt - or offensive.