VOCABULARY UNIT 5 12/01/15

DIRECTIONS Vocabulary Word Sentence Pattern : you will learn the different types of sentences you will encounter in arguments. Create your sentences for the vocab words using that particular pattern. Take a picture of the next slide for your reference.

SENTENCE PATTERNS Complex: contains independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses. EX: Since the honors 10 th students were prepared, they did very well on their exams. Compound: contains 2 independent clauses joined by a comma and a coordinating conjunction. CC’s: FANBOYS ( F or A nd N or B ut O r Y et S o). EX: The honors 10 th students were prepared, so they did very well on their exams. Compound/Complex: contains 2+ independent clauses and 1+ subordinate clauses. EX: Since they had read and studied, the honors 10 th students were prepared, so they did very well on their exams. Loose Sentence: reveals the key information right away and unfolds loosely after that. EX: Due to snowy conditions, the principal announced an early release, and students were jubilant, high-fiving, shouting about sleds and video games, wishing the clock would go faster.

SENTENCE PATTERNS CONT. Periodic Sentence: main idea or most important information is not revealed until the end of the sentence. EX: That morning, after a longer than normal bus ride on icy roads, we made it safely to school. Balanced Sentence: similar to parallel structure, it features 2 similar elements that balance each other (like on a teeter-totter). EX: The students reveled in the snow day; the teachers reveled in the student-less day. Chiasmus: repetition and arrangement of 2 key terms in a sentence using ABBA pattern. EX: Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. Asyndeton: the omission of conjunctions in a series of related clauses. EX: I came, I saw, I conquered.

SENTENCE PATTERNS CONT. Polysyndeton: opposite of asyndeton, the deliberate use of many conjunctions for emphasis. EX: The movie was amazing—the acting and the camera work and the soundtrack and the special effects. Wow! Anaphora: repetition of the same word or group of words at the beginning of successive sentences or lines. EX: We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing-grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills—Churchill. Epistrophe: ending a series of lines, phrases, clauses, or sentences with the same word or words. EX: What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny compared to what lies within us —Emerson. Parallel Structure: refers to grammatical or structural similarity between sentences or parts of a sentence. EX: She loved singing, dancing, and acting.

UNIT 5 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Complex Sentence 1.Brazen 2.Compunction 3.Din 4.Edict 5.Indiscretion 6.Perquisites 7.Sepulcher 8.Suppliant 9.Tumult 10.Marauding

VOCABULARY UNIT 6

UNIT 6 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Compound Sentence 1.Admonish 2.Akimbo 3.Lassitude 4.Licentious 5.Muse (noun or verb) 6.Pecuniary 7.Plight 8.Presumptuous 9.Subversive 10.Vacuous

VOCABULARY UNIT 7

UNIT 7 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Compound-Complex Sentence 1.Avocation 2.Callous 3.Capricious 4.Disparity 5.Efficacy 6.Epistle 7.Hospice 8.Impetus 9.Moribund 10.Vacillate

VOCABULARY UNIT 8

UNIT 8 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Loose Sentence 1.Akin 2.Corroborate 3.Inexorable 4.Insipid 5.Nefarious 6.Physiognomy 7.Retinue 8.Suppliant 9.Tedium 10.Torrid

VOCABULARY UNIT 9

UNIT 9 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Periodic Sentence 1.Affront 2.Blasé 3.Cajole 4.Choleric 5.Encumber 6.Feckless 7.Impasse 8.Indolent 9.Lugubrious 10.Ribald

VOCABULARY UNIT 10

UNIT 10 Sentence Pattern to Learn: Balanced Sentence 1.Adulation 2.Censure 3.Dissemble 4.Dissimulation 5.Droll 6.Expectorate 7.Palpate 8.Peremptory 9.Pusillanimous 10.Surfeit