Quarter 1-2 Vocab
Quarter 3-4 Vocab
Unit themes
Rhetorical/ Literary devices
Class Lore
100

This root word means "to write".

What is "graph"?

100

This root word means "free".

What is "liber"?

100
This is what "P.S.A" stands for.

What is "Public Service Announcement"?

100

This type of device compares things using "like" or "as".

What is a simile?

100

The name of all the plants in the room.

What is "Colby"?

200

This root word means the sea.

What is "mar," "mari," or "mer"?

200

This root word means death.

What is "mort" or "mori"?

200

This is the name of the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution.

What is "The Bill of Rights"?

200

This is where you compare two things based on their proximity or nearness to each other in a story or essay.

What is "Juxtaposition"?

200

This is where Mr. Yokanovich moved to this spring.

Where is "Chicago"?

300

This root means alone.

What is "sol"?

300

This root word means "hidden".

What is "crypt"?

300

This is the name of the international organization that created the 30 human rights after the Holocaust.

What is the United Nations?

300

This is where you repeat the initial sounds of words, like "Ally the alligator ate an ape."

What is alliteration?

300
This is the side of the room that Ms. Muraski's desk faced during first quarter (window, back wall, door, whiteboard).

What is the door side?

400

This root means flat.

What is "platy"?

400

This word part means soul.

What is "psych"?

400
The name for someone who advocates for an issue or community, but they are not from that community.

What is an "ally"?

400

This is an extremely unique metaphor.

What is a conceit?

400

The type of reading program that English 10 uses.

What is "Engaged Reading"?

500

This root means "feel".

What is "sent" or "sens"?

500

This word part means "disease".

What is "pathos"?

500

This is the idea that all humans share commonalities across cultures because of being human (i.e. birth, death, love, etc).

What is "The Human Condition"?

500

This is where you have a list and omit the "and" or conjunctions.

What is asyndeton?

500

This is how many chargers Ms. Muraski has lost from her room this school year.

What is "3"?

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