Erika's Vocab

Paradigm
1. A model or typical example of something
2. Noun
3.
4. Model (s), Archetype (s), Example (s)
5. Darkness is a paradigm of the unknown.
Philology
1. Comparing languages to one another
2. Noun
3.
4. Linguistics (s), Dialectology (s), Syntax (s)
5. The philology between English and Spanish and English and French can be quite similar because they all have Latin roots.
Phonology
1. The study of how words are formed and how they sound
2. Noun
3.
4. Semantics (s), Grammar (s), Syntax (s)
5. In Pygmalion, phonology is used to change Liza’s speech.
Rhetoric
1. Wordiness or over exaggerating something
2. Noun
3.
4. Balderdash (s), Rant (s), Elocution (s)
5. The rhetoric was such a long wordy speech that no one even understood it.
Syntax
1. The order that words go in when speaking
2.Noun
3.
4.Grammar (s), Word order (s), Structure (s)
5. The syntax of his sentence was off, almost as if he were saying the words in a backward order.