Thursday, September 20, 2007

Molly Cusack's vocab

Paradigm
1. Serves as a pattern or model
2. Noun
3. Example, model, pattern
4. Car dealerships make paradigms of their new ideas for cars to show their employees.
http://www.3dm3.com/tutorials/carrender/TT1.jpg

Philology
1. The study of literature and language.
2. Noun
3. Historical linguistics, philologies, literature

4. I consider myself a philologist because i love to read poems and figure out meanings behind sentences.
http://www.case.edu/artsci/engl/Library/books.jpg

Phonology
1. The study of how words sound.
2. Noun
3. Pronunciation, Translation, Speech,
4. I have to understand phonology to speak correctly.
http://facweb.furman.edu/~wrogers/phonemes/phono/phonhead.gif

Rhetoric
1. The study of the effective use of language.
2. Noun
3. Delivery, elocution, eloquence
4. When people write speeches they make sure to have rhetoric sentences.
http://www.intellagirl.com/Elements-of-Rhetoric.png

Syntax
1. The study of grammar in sentences.
2. Noun
3. Grammar, sentence structure, phrase structure
4. Using Syntax correctly will make your sentences flow easier.
https://www.schoolspecialtypublishing.com/assets/items/0768203260.jpg

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

"Philology" check your orthography.
"Rhetoric" is a noun; you use as an adjective.
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