GREEK AND LATIN ROOT Graph THE ROOT GRAPH

GREEK AND LATIN ROOT Graph

THE ROOT GRAPH MEANS…. write or writing

AUTOBIOGRAPHY • writing about a person’s own life written by that person • I am going to write an autobiography about my life as a teacher. • Jackie Chan wrote an autobiography about his life as an actor.

AUTOGRAPH • the writing of one’s own life • Please sign your autograph on this check. • The largest autograph on the Declaration of Independence was John Hancock.

BIBLIOGRAPHY • the written list of all the books used in a report or a book • I listed all of the sources I used in a bibliography for my social studies fair project.

BIOGRAPHY • a book written about another person’s life • Did you read the new biography about Barack Obama?

CARTOGRAPHY • mapmaking; the writing involved in making maps or charts • I would like to study cartography in college. • Meriwether Lewis and William Clark were famous cartographers.

HOMOGRAPH • a word written the same way as another word but having a different meaning • Many people think English is difficult to learn because we have so many homographs and homophones in our language. • The word bow is a homograph. • Please put that bow in your hair. • I am standing on the bow of the ship.

PARAGRAPH • a section of writing that has a topic and concluding sentence • Write me a paragraph about the first Thanksgiving in Colonial America.

PHONOGRAPH • a record player; a device that turns writing on records into sound • My grandmother has a phonograph in her house.

PHOTOGRAPHY • the use of light to record an image using a camera • There are several photography companies in Martinsburg that take wedding photos.

SEISMOGRAPH • a device that writes down (records) the movements of the earth • Scientists collect data from seismographs and use it to predict earthquakes.