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376 Chapter 12 Word Elements: Speech and WritingDICTATOR ISSUES EDICT BANNING COLLOQUIALISMS4. Does the dictator lack power?5. Did the dictator issue a suggestion?6. Is informal language allowed?LONG MONOLOGUE IS PROLOGUE TO PLAY’S ACTION7. Does the monologue come before the play’s action?8. Is the prologue delivered by many different people?INVOKING A NEW LAW, SUPREME COURT CONTRADICTSPREVIOUS RULING9. Did the Supreme Court change its ruling?10. Does the Supreme Court use the justification of a law?Word ElementsPart 2The second part of this chapter presents two word elements relating to theconcept of writing. Then it introduces three pairs of easily confusedwords that college students often have trouble distinguishing.-gram, -graph, -graphy, graph (write)This suffix has three spellings. It is spelled -gram, as intelegram, a written message sent by wires. (Tele- means“far.”) The spelling -graph is used in autograph, a person’s signature,or “self-writing.” (Auto means “self.”) Finally, the suffixcan be spelled -graphy, as in photography (literally, “writingin light”). Graph can also function as a root.Graffiti, that often illegal writing that appears in elevators, on overpasses andwalls, and, of course, in bathrooms, has plagued us throughout history. Theword graffiti comes, through Italian, from the word element graph. Archaeologistshave discovered the name of Padihorpakhered, who, identifying himselfas a powerful Egyptian priest, carved on the sandstone sides of a monumentin Thebes 2,700 years ago. Thus, like graffiti writers of today, he assuredhimself notice.Copyright © Cengage Learning. All Right Reserved.