Thursday, September 20, 2007

Vocab

1. Paradigm is something that serves as a model.
2. noun.
3. Synonyms: Archetype, Mirror, Ideal
4. Some artists use a live subject for a paradigm.
5.

1. Philology is the study of original texts.
2. noun.
3. Synonyms: linguistics, interpretation, language
4. Philology is sometimes used to help understand old records.
5.<----Rosetta Stone 1. Phonology is the study of speech and sounds. 2. noun. 3. Synonyms: phonetics, phonemics, linguistics 4. Most teachers don't major in phonology. 5.

1. Rhetoric is the study of the effective use of language.
2. noun.
3. Synonyms: Delivery, elocution, eloquence
4. My English teachers are always on me for rhetoric.
5.

1. Syntax: rules for grammatically correct sentences.
2. noun.
3. Synonyms: structure, syntactic arrangement, syntactics
4. I always get marked off for bad syntax in essays.
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