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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. 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.






2. Unrhymed verse - often occurring in iambic pentameter.






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






4. An extended fictional prose narrative.






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6. Occurs when there are two or more possible meanings to a word or phrase.






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






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






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






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






11. 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.






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






13. 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.






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






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






16. The study of the structure of sentences.






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






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19. The main character or hero of a written work.






20. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






21. 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.






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






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






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






25. A short poem about personal feelings and emotions.






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






27. 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






28. 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






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






30. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






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






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






33. A narrative form - such as an epic - legend - myth - song - poem - or fable - that has been retold within a culture for generations. Examples include The People Couldn't Fly retold by Virginia Hamilton and And Green Grass Grew All Around by Alvin Sch






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






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






36. The perspective from which a story is told.






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






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






39. The writer says one thing and means another






40. Rhyme that occurs within a line of verse.






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






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






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






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






45. 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.






46. 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






47. 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 .






48. 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






49. A wise saying - usually short and written.






50. A document organized in paragraph form that can be long or short and can be in the form of a letter - dialogue - or discussion. Examples include Politics and the English Language by George Orwell - The American Scholar by Ralph Waldo Emerson - and Mo