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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






2. 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.






3. 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.






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






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






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






7. A lesson a work of literature is teaching.






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






9. A break in the rhythm of language - particularly a natural pause in a in a line of verse - maked in prosody by a double vertical line ( || ). Ex. Arma virumque cano - || Troiae qui primus ab oris .






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






11. 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.






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






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






14. The perspective from which a story is told.






15. 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






16. 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






17. The regular or random occurrence of sound in poetry.






18. A socially accepted word or phrase used to replace unacceptable language - such as expressions for bodily functions or body parts. Also used as substitutes for straightforward words to tactfully conceal or falsify meaning. Ex. My grandmother passed a






19. A figure of speech in which exaggeration is used for emphasis or effect - as in I could sleep for a year or this book weighs a ton.






20. The multiple use of a word - phrase - or idea for emphasis or rhythmic effect.






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






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






23. 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.






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






25. 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






26. The telling of a story.






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






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






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30. An author's choice of words based on their clearness - conciseness - effectiveness - and authenticity.






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32. 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






33. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






34. Persuasive writing.






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






36. 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.'






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






42. The study of the orgin of words






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






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






45. 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






46. A metrical ______ is defined as one stressed syllable and a number of unstressed syllables (from zero to as many as four). Stressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. Unstressed syllables are indicated by the ? symbol. There are four possible t






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






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






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






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