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Praxis Middle School Language Arts

Subjects : praxis, english
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1. A variety of a language used by people from a particular geographic area.






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






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






4. Simple - compound (conjunctions) - complex (subordination) - compound - complex (conjunctions and subordination).






5. 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.






6. A method an author uses to let readers know more about the characters and their personal traits.






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






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






9. 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






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






11. 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






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. 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.






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






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






20. A person or being in a narrative






21. 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






22. Persuasive writing.






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






24. Rhyming of the ends of lines of verse.






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






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






27. A wise saying - usually short and written.






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






29. 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






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






31. Opposing elements or characters in a plot.






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






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






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






35. Language that is intended to be evasive or to conceal. Ex. 'downsized' actually means fired or loss of job.






36. An extended fictional prose narrative.






37. A stanza made up of two rhyming lines.






38. The study of the meaning in language.






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






40. A word that gives more information about a noun or pronoun. Ex. Sue runs very fast - very describes the ____ fast and gives information about how fast Sue runs.






41. Language widely considered crude - disgusting - and oftentimes offensive.






42. The telling of a story.






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






44. The narrator records the actions from his or her point of view - unaware of any of the other characters' thoughts or feelings. Also known as the objective view.






45. 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.






46. A short story or folktale that contains a moral - which may be expressed explicitly at the end as a maxim. Examples include The Country Mouse and the Town Mouse - The Tortoise and the Hare - and The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing.






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






48. 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.






49. 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






50. A narrative technique in which the main story is composed primarily for the purpose of organizing a set of shorter stories - each of which is a story within a story. Examples include Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales - Ovid's Metamorphoses - and Em







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