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Zbo-Arm 2nd six week
Zbo-Arm 2nd six weeks review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| bas (root) | low |
| cap, capt (root) | take, sieze |
| cred (root) | believe |
| dict (root) | speak |
| duc, duct (root) | lead |
| fac, fact (root) | make, do |
| graph (root) | write |
| log (root) | word, study of |
| mort (root) | death |
| scrib, script (root) | write |
| tact (root) | touch |
| ten (root) | hold |
| therm (root) | heat |
| ver (root) | true |
| able, ible (suffix) | able to |
| er, or (suffix) | one who does |
| fy (suffix) | to make |
| ism (suffix) | the practice of |
| ist (suffix) | one who is occupied with |
| less (suffix) | without, lacking |
| ous (suffix) | full of |
| ness (suffix) | the quality of |
| ship (suffix) | the art or skill of |
| tude (suffix) | the state of |
| concrete noun | can be seen, heard, smelled, tasted or touched |
| abstract noun | an idea or feeling |
| proper noun | a particular person, place, thing or idea(always capitalized) |
| common noun | a general person, place, thing or idea |
| collective noun | names a group |
| subject | the noun or pronoun performing the action in a sentence |
| predicate | the verb or verb phrase in a sentence |
| denotation | literal meaning of a word- dictionary |
| connotation | the inferred meaning of a word- emotional |
| rhyme scheme | a regular pattern of rhyming words |
| diction | word choice |
| point of view | perspective of who is telling the story |
| alliteration | repetition of beginning consonant sounds |
| assonance | repetition of vowel sounds |
| personification | giving human qualities to something not human |
| hyperbole | an exaggeration |
| onomatopoeia | a word that sounds like what it means |
| simile | a comparison between two unlike things using like or as |
| metaphor | a direct comparison between two unlike things |
| symbolism | something that represents something else |
| irony | something that is unexpected |
| imagery | language that appeals to the five senses |
| tone | author's attitude towards what he has written |
| theme | the message or lesson you can take from a piece of literature |
| repetition | the repeating of words or phrases for effect |
| genre | type or category |