More Useful Words in English Lessons
Here are some more words that you'll come across in Englishlessons.
Using the chart as a guide, try to memorize all
of them.
Have you looked back at mem1 and mem2
recently?
| WORD | SYLLABLES | DIFFICULT BITS |
| metaphor | met-a-phor | -ph- |
| myth | myth | -y- (not -i-) |
| narrator | nar-rat-or | |
| onomatopoeia | on-o-mat-o-poei-a | that last but one syllable is a real pain isn't it? |
| pamphlet | pam-phlet | -phlet |
| personification | per-son-if-ic-a-tion | easy when you break it up into syllables |
| preposition | pre-pos-i-tion | |
| playwright | play-wright | don't forget the -w- |
| resolution | re-sol-u-tion | |
| rhyme | rhyme | I often get this one wrong: (I forget the -h-) |
| scene | scene | sc- (like science) |
| simile | sim-i-le | -le |
| soliloquy | sol-il-o-quy | -quy |
| synonym | sy-no-nym | sy- and -nym |
| tabloid | tab-loid | -loid (noise, voice etc) |
| vocabulary | vo-cab-u-lary | pronounce it clearly |
| vowel | vow-el | don't forget -e- |
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Remember to use
LOOK
THINK
COVER
WRITE
CHECK
and pay special
attention to the
difficult bits