Word Formation - Speech Choir Flashcards

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What are the types of Word Formation Processes?

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Blending, Clipping, Compounding, Acronym, Abbreviation, Folk Etymology

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Word formation process in which parts of two or more words are put together to form a new word.

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Blending

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Word formation process in which a word is shortened or clipped while retaining the meaning of the original word.

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Clipping

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What are the 4 types of Clipping?

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Initial Clipping, Medial Clipping, Final Clipping, Complex Clipping

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Are formed from the initial letters or beginning syllables of a series of words and pronounced as a word.

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Acronyms

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What is SCUBA?

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Self Contained Underwater Breathing Apparatus

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What is RADAR?

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Radio Detection and Ranging

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What is SIM?

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Subscriber Identification Module

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Process wherein two or more words are joined together to create a new word.

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Compounding

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Changing of a word so as to make it more familiar or recognizable.

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Folk etymology

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When the subject comes before the predicate.

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Natural or Normal Word Order

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When the verb comes before the predicate.

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Inverted Word Order

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What are the three types of Writing?

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Informative Writing, Journalistic Writing, Literary Writing

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Used to present information to readers in an unbiased manner.

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Informative Writing

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Informative writing includes:

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Provide Knowledge, Explain a Process, Develop a concept.

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5 structures of Informative Writing

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Description, Sequence, Cause and Effect, Comparison and Contrast, Problem and Solution

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Explains a topic often in considerable detail.

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Description

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Writers can lay out steps in a process, series of events, or hierarchy.

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Sequence

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Focus on events or occurences.

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Cause and Effect

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Describes the similarities or difference between objects, places, or events.

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Comparison and Contrast

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Pros and cons of each solution.

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Problem and Solution

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Parts of Informative Wrting.

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Introduction, Body, Conclusion

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Style of writing in reporting news stories.

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Journalistic Writing

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Purpose of Journalistic Writing

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Give readers information, to entertain, and can be persuasive without choosing sides.

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Parts of Journalistic Writing

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The Lead, The Body, The Tail

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Defined as a wide variety of imaginative writing that leads to the appreciation of the cultural heritage of students.

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Literary Writing

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Performance groups that recite speeches in unison.

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Speech Choir

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Types of Speech Choir.

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Conventional and Dynamic Speech Choir

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Also known as standing choir because the members just simply speak or read a literary piece without any movement away from the spot on the stage.

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Conventional Speech Choir

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Opposite of Conventional Speech Choir

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Dynamic Speech Choir

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What are the elements of speech choir?

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Members, Pieces, Movements and Facial Expression, Costuming, Voice Quality, Staging, Number of Voices, Tempo, Pitch.

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Chosen based on the voice qualities of the members.

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Members

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Typically poems or poetic passages.

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Pieces

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Refers to gesture and choreography

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Movement

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Refers to eemotions of members.

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Facial Expressions

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Meaning of a piece may be expressed by the members of the choir through their ideas.

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Costuming

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Ability to use separately or combine successfully the light, medium, and dark voices.

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Voice Quality

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Solo or unison voices assigned to the parts of the pieces.

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Number of Voices

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Organizations and positions of the members on stage.

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Staging

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Rate of speed at which delivery progresses.

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Tempo

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Variations of the voice.

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Pitch