QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
◉ Figurative Language.
Answer: Language that avoids the use of the exact meaning of words
and uses exaggeration, metaphors and embellishments.
◉ Greek.
Answer: The language of the ancient Greeks whose morphemes form
scientific terms.
◉ Guided Discovery.
Answer: Manner of presenting new material or concepts so that they
can be deduced or guided by the students. EX: self discovery, What
do you notice? in pass, sass, tass
◉ Homographs.
Answer: Words that have different meanings but share the same
spelling. Pronunciations may be same or different. (duck, duck)
(bow, bow)
◉ Homonyms.
,Answer: Words that have different meanings but share the same
pronunciation. Spellings may be same or different. Ex: (lead, lead)
(beet,beat)(sale, sail)
◉ Homophones.
Answer: Words that have different meanings and spellings but share
the same pronunciation. EX: (for, four) (to, two, too)
◉ Idioms.
Answer: an expression having a meaning that cannot be derived
from the meanings of the elements. EX: Take the bull by the horns
does not mean what the words say.
◉ Implicit Instruction.
Answer: Instruction that implies understanding without being
expressed. Also known as inferential instruction.
◉ Latin.
Answer: The language of the ancient Romans from which 60% of
English words are derived.
◉ Linguistic.
Answer: Denoting language processing and language structure.
, ◉ Linguistics.
Answer: Study of the production, properties, structure, meaning and
or use of language.
◉ Logographic Writing System.
Answer: A system in which pictures represent the words of language
(Chinese). If English were treated as a logographic writing system, it
would contain over 600,000 pictures. EX: Pictures rather than
sound.
◉ Metaphor.
Answer: A figure of speech in which a word or phrase that means on
thing is used, through implication, to mean something else. Ex: The
ship plows the sea.
◉ Multiple Meanings.
Answer: Different meanings for the same word. EX: homographs
◉ Polygot.
Answer: A language that is derived from several languages. English
is a polygot language, derived from Anglo Saxon, Latin and Greek
languages.
◉ Prefix.