Latin Roots - Part 1

Matching

a. ambivalence h. annuity
b. matriarch i. biathlon
c. benevolence j. anthropocentric
d. amicable k. cardiodynia
e. centigrade l. rebellion
f. chronometer m. cerebrate
g. anticlimactic n. circumvent
____ 1. interpreting or regarding the world in terms of human values and experiences
____ 2. to use the mind; think or think about
____ 3. divided into 100 degrees, as a scale
____ 4. inability to make a choice; the coexistence of opposing attitudes or feelings
____ 5. to go around or bypass
____ 6. characterized by or exhibiting friendliness
____ 7. a woman who is the founder or dominant member of a community or group
____ 8. something closing a series that is strikingly less important than what precedes it
____ 9. the yearly payment of an allowance or income.
____ 10. pain in the heart region
____ 11. an act of kindness
____ 12. A competition that combines events in cross-country skiing and rifle shooting.
____ 13. a very accurate timepiece
____ 14. open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler
Latin Roots - Part 2

Matching

a. clamor i. collaborate
b. seclude j. corporeal
c. contraband k. cumulonimbus
d. credence l. cyclical
e. cryptic m. decagon
f. decentralization n. demographic
g. dermatitis o. diction
h. cognition
____ 1. dealing with the nature of the physical body
____ 2. a plane polygon of ten angles and ten sides
____ 3. hidden meaning
____ 4. a noisy shouting
____ 5. the study of people
____ 6. belief that something is true or valid
____ 7. to isolate
____ 8. inflammation of the skin
____ 9. process of acquiring knowledge
____ 10. a cloud characterized by large, dense towers that often reach altitudesof 30,000
ft.
____ 11. anything prohibited by law
____ 12. to work together
____ 13. the distribution of power from a central authority to regional authorities
____ 14. having parts arranged in a whorl
____ 15. choice of words
Latin Roots - Part 3

Matching

a. endogamy i. autograph
b. gynephobia j. forebode
c. domineering k. helianthus
d. heterogeneous l. equidistant
e. gastritis m. hemisphere
f. homogeneous n. geoponics
g. hypertension o. genealogy
h. dyspepsia
____ 1. an equal distance from two points
____ 2. genus of plants including sunflowers
____ 3. abnormal indigestion
____ 4. one half of the earth
____ 5. above normal pressure
____ 6. soil based agriculture
____ 7. to give an advance warning of something bad
____ 8. of the same nature or kind
____ 9. excessively controlling
____ 10. made up of unrelated parts
____ 11. the study of the history of a family
____ 12. the custom to marry within one’s clan
____ 13. fear of women
____ 14. written with one’s own hand
____ 15. inflammation of the stomach
 Part 4

Matching

a. ideology k. prescience
b. immoral l. telegraph
c. interstitial m. transgress
d. macrophage n. vista
e. microorganism o. manicure
f. monogamy p. amorphous
g. paternity q. polytheistic
h. pedicure r. psychosis
i. philanthropy s. periscope
j. postmortem t. prescribe

____ 1. not conforming to the patterns of conduct usually accepted

____ 2. professional care and treatment of the feet
____ 3. to cross over or go beyond the limits imposed by law
____ 4. a large white blood cell, occurring principally in connective tissue
____ 5. love of mankind in general
____ 6. a body of ideas that reflects the beliefs and interests of a nation
____ 7. a cosmetic treatment of the hands and fingernails
____ 8. an optical instrument for viewing objects that are above the level of direct sight
____ 9. situated between the cells of a structure
____ 10. to lay down, in writing or otherwise, as a rule or a course of action to be followed
____ 11. any severe form of mental disorder
____ 12. knowledge of things before they exist or happen
____ 13. lacking definite form
____ 14. marriage with only one person at a time
____ 15. a view or prospect, especially one seen through a long, narrow avenue or passage
____ 16. belief in more than one god or in many gods
____ 17. the state of being a father
____ 18. an apparatus, system, or process for transmitting messages or signals to a distant place
____ 19. occurring in the time following death
____ 20. any living thing too small to be viewed by the unaided eye
Part 5

Matching

a. contemporary j. fortify
b. introspective k. boyhood
c. terrain l. corporatism
d. theology m. flautist
e. universal n. anthropology
f. statistician o. amendment
g. senescent p. contentedness
h. conscionable q. autonomy
i. goddess

____ 1. acceptable to one's conscience

____ 2. the state of being satisfied with what one has
____ 3. study of divine things or religious truth
____ 4. to make strong
____ 5. existing, occurring, or living at the same time
____ 6. an expert in or compiler of statistics
____ 7. a right of self-governing
____ 8. the state of being a boy
____ 9. a female deity
____ 10. to look into or examine one's own mind, feelings, etc.
____ 11. one who plays the flute
____ 12. the act of altering a bill
____ 13. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of all or the whole
____ 14. the study of human beings
____ 15. a tract of land, especially as considered with reference to its natural features
____ 16. system of corporative organization of a political unit
____ 17. in the process of growing old, aging
 Poetry Terms
Alliteration
The repetition of the same or similar sounds at the beginning of words such as tongue twisters
like 'She sells seashells by the seashore'
Assonance
The repetition or a pattern of similar sounds, as in the tongue twister "Moses supposes his
toeses are roses."
Blank verse
Blank verse is in unrhymed iambic pentameter which is a type of meter in poetry, in which there
are five iambs to a line.
Consonance
Consonance is the repetition, at close intervals, of the final consonant sounds of accented
syllables or important words.
Couplet
Shakespearean sonnets usually end in a couplet and are a pair of lines that are the same length
and usually rhyme and form a complete thought.
Hyperbole
Hyperbole (overstatement) is a type of figurative language that depends on intentional
overstatement.
Iambic pentameter
Shakespeare's plays were written mostly in iambic pentameter, which is the most common type
of meter in English poetry. It is a basic measure of English poetry, five iambic feet in each line.
Imagery
Imagery draws the reader into poetic experiences by touching on the images and senses which
the reader already knows.
Metaphor
A metaphor is a pattern equating two seemingly unlike objects. An examples of a metaphor is
'drowning in debt'.
Meter
Meters are regularized rhythms. An arrangement of language in which the accents occur at
apparently equal intervals in time. Each repeated unit of meter is called a foot.
Onomatopoeia
A figure of speech in which words are used to imitate sounds. Examples of onomatopoeic words
can be found in numerous Nursery Rhymes e.g. clippety-clop and cock-a-doodle-do.
Personification
Personification means giving human traits to nonhuman or abstract things.
Quatrain
A stanza or poem of four lines.
Refrain
A phrase, line, or group of lines that is repeated throughout a poem, usually after every stanza.
Rhyme
The occurrence of the same or similar sounds at the end of two or more words.
Rhythm
Rhythm is significant in poetry because poetry is so emotionally charged and intense. Rhythm
can be measured in terms of heavily stressed to less stressed syllables. Rhythm is measured in
feet, units usually consisting of one heavily accented syllable and one or more lightly accented
syllable.
Simile
A figure of speech in which two things are compared using the word "like" or "as" to draw
attention to similarities about two things that are seemingly dissimilar.
Stanza
Two or more lines of poetry that together form one of the divisions of a poem. The stanzas of a
poem are usually of the same length and follow the same pattern of meter and rhyme.
Verse
A single metrical line of poetry, or poetry in general (as opposed to prose).
Types of Poems
Cinquain
A cinquain has five lines.
Line 1 is one word (the title)
Line 2 is two words that describe the title.
Line 3 is three words that tell the action
Line 4 is four words that express the feeling
Line 5 is one word that recalls the title
Epigram
A very short, satirical and witty poem usually written as a brief couplet or quatrain. The term
epigram is derived from the Greek word epigramma, meaning inscription.
Epitaph
An epitaph is a commemorative inscription on a tomb or mortuary monument written in praise
of a deceased person.
Haiku
A Japanese poem composed of three unrhymed lines of five, seven, and five syllables. Haiku
reflects on some aspect of nature.
Limerick
A short sometimes bawdy, humorous poem of consisting of five anapaestic lines. Lines 1, 2, and
5 of a Limerick have seven to ten syllables and rhyme with one another. Lines 3 and 4 have five
to seven syllables and also rhyme with each other.
Sonnet
English (or Shakespearean) sonnets are lyric poems that are 14 lines long falling into three
coordinate quatrains and a concluding couplet. Italian (or Petrarchan) sonnets are divided into
two quatrains and a six-line sestet.
Villanelle
A villanelle has only two rhyme sounds. The first and third lines of the first stanza are rhyming
refrains that alternate as the third line in each successive stanza and form a couplet at the
close. A villanelle is nineteen lines long, consisting of five tercets and one concluding quatrain.

Parts of a Sentence
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