Chapter 8 Comparison and Contrast Metaphors

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Chapter 8Comparison and Contrast Metaphors

• Many of our prefixes and suffixes occur in
  antithetical pairs.
• Evaluation Eu-Mal, Bene-Mis
• Attitude Pro-Con,
• Size Maxi-Mini
• Position Hyper-Hypo, Super-Sub, In-Trans
• Time Pre-Post
• Prefixes often assimilate to become more like the
  word they are attached to Inelegant, Indecent,
  Impossible, Irreligious, Illegal, etc.

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Vocabulary Plus A Source-Based
Approachwww.ablongman.com/nilsen

• By Don L. F. Nilsen
• And Alleen Pace Nilsen

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Antithetical PrefixesPro- Con- Anti-
Contra-
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Visual Antithesis René Magritte
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Visual Antithesis AgainRené Magritte
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Visual Antithesis AgainRené Magritte
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Good and BadEu- Bene- Ortho- Mal- Mis-
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Com with/together Dis apart/distant
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De- down/away from Trans across
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In- Inter- Intra-
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In Toward Ex Away from
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Negative in-In-/I? Il- Im- Ir-
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Negative Non- Un- and A-
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Below vs. AboveSub- Super- Hypo- Hyper-
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New Again Between YearlyNeo- Re- Inter-
Ann-
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Before vs. AfterAnte- Pre- Fore- Post-
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Action Receiver Suffixes-or -ee
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Verbs vs. Nouns-ate/-y -ion
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!Interesting notes

• Premonition is related to mnemonic and amnesia.
• Interminable is related to terminate.
• Supercilious is raised eyebrows (L cilium)
• Anno Domini, Ante Meridian, Post Meridian, and
  Post Script are related to A.D., A.M., P.M., and
  P.S.

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!Augmentative Prefixes Maxi- Mega- Poly-
Arch-
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!Augmentative Suffix-ious (full of)

• Capricious
• Expeditious
• Fortuitous
• Fractious
• Loquacious
• Mendacious
• Meritorious
• Obsequious
• Pugnacious
• Specious
• Supercalifragulisticexpealidocious
• (Nilsen Nilsen 206)

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!!DiminutivesMini- Micro-
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!!!Visual AntithesisInside Don Quixotes Head
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Reference

• Nilsen, Alleen Pace, and Don L. F. Nilsen.
  Vocabulary Plus High School and Up A Source
  Based Approach. Boston, MA Pearson/Allyn
  Bacon, 2004.
• www.ablongman.com/nilsen