Thursday, September 27, 2007

trents week 2 vocab 4 real

Paradigm-
Description: Something that serves as a pattern or a fixed arrangement.

Part of Speech: Noun

Related Words: Model, representation, and Archetype

Sentence: I sm a paradigm for young athletes.

Philology-
Description: A study of written records in their original form.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: Archealogy, Literature, speech

Sentence: Philology was used to analyze the Rosetta Stone.

Phonology-
Description: The study of sounds and pronunciation.

Part of Speech: Noun

Related Words: vibrations, speech, accent

Sentence: Phonology is used every time I listen to rap.

Rhetoric-
Description: The effective use of language, being able to use language effectively.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: pronounciation, bombast, elocution

Sentence: The better your rhetoric the more easily people understand you.

Syntax-
Description: The study of rules for a grammatical sentence.

Part of Speech: noun

Related Words: alphabet, linguistics, structure

Sentence: I was not able to comprehend the syntax of your speech.

1 comment:

Julie Schellenberg said...

Trent: No pix on site (-5).
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