1. nom = name

2. denomination a religious movement or group sharing common beliefs and identified by a particular name; a unit of specified value in a system of currency patheos.com

3. denominator the part of a fraction below the line, showing how many equal parts a quantity is divided into; a shared characteristic mpsaz.org

4. ignominy disgrace or humiliation; loss of reputation mirrorcracked.wordpress.com

5. misnomer a name wrongly applied to a person or thing

6. nom de plume a pen name; a name used by a writer that is not his or her real name teach.fcps.net

7. nomenclature a system or set of names or classifications, as in science for plants and animals extralargedogbreedsphoto.blogspot.com

8. nominal existing in name only, small in relation to the real value savingsaccountfinder.com.au

9. nominate to submit a person’s name for appointment or election, to name or select ktvb.com INCORRECT PRONOUN! “someone” is singular, so the correct pronoun is “him or her”

10. PART B WORDS nominee nomination HINT: don’t use a form of the word in a word you’re defining. use your suffixes page at back of the notebook. Turn to it now and add -ee = one who

11. PART A

12. 1. Mary Ann Evans wrote Silas Marner under the ____________ ‘George Eliot’. nom de plume

13. 2. The class will _________ five candidates. nominate

14. 3. The United Methodist Church is a Protestant _____________. denomination

15. 4. The city sold the land to the university for the _________ sum of $1. nominal

16. 5. Over two hundred years ago, Carolus Linneaus invented the _____________ used to name plants and animals according to their genus and species. nomenclature scielo.br

17. 6. Losing to the worst team in the league brought _________ to our team. lewismct.wikispaces.com ignominy

18. 7. “E-Z-Build is certainly a __________ for that tent because the instructions were incomplete! misnomer jamieselby.co.uk

19. PART B

20. nominee noun form: a person who has been suggested or recommended to an office, award, or a candidacy. PLEASE add –ee to your suffixes list onlineathens.com

21. nomination Noun form: the act of submitting a person’s name for election, award, or candidacy firstread.nbcnews.com

22. binomial noun an algebraic expression of the sum or the difference of two terms. a two-part name, esp. the Latin name of a species of living organism (consisting of the genus followed by the specific epithet).

23. Part C - review 11. Each of the latchbosses takes complete, sole control, acting as ______________ in the latch. 12. Lotti Getts seems to have a case of ____________ as she rules over her latch. 13. Spaz fails to ____________ Billy’s help in getting safely to Bean’s latch. 14. In the backstory, readers discover that Kay and Charly are Spaz’s ___________ parents, not his biological parents. monarch megalomania enlist adoptive

24. Denominations of coins in US currency:

25. MISNOMERS “Shorty”

26. “Fluffy”

27. “Squeaky Clean”

28. analogies D. Complete the following analogies using ANY of your vocabulary this unit. dust particle : micron :: nuclear blast : ________________ megalomania : Napoleon :: __________________: dwarf veracity : truth :: ____________________: shame Prefix : word :: numerator : ______________________ megaton macrocephaly ignominy denominator

29. E. extra credit: find out the real names of these authors (who use a nom de plume) Lemony Snicket = Mark Twain = Dr. Seuss = George Orwell = Avi = Daniel Handler Samuel Clemens Theodore Seuss Geisel Eric Blair Edward Wortis

30. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. What did you find at shmoop? What is the literary technique of making a reference within a literary work?