Creating New Words and Villains

This week we listened to a TED Talk: Go Ahead, Make Up New Words by Erin McKean. Then we followed her rules for making up new words. She stated six categories that are used for making up new words in English and they are:
1. borrow or steal words from other languages- such as crepe from French
2. compounding two words into one- such as bicycle
3. blending two words- such as brunch
4. functional shift- taking a noun and making into a verb or vice versa- such as mosquitoed
5. back formation- using the root of a word- such as butlers butle.
6. Acronym becomes a word- such as NASA
The new words they came up with today will be used in their stories at some point over the next few weeks.

We also are fleshing out our villain. Villains  are very important to an adventure novel, without them we have no story. These are the questions they will be working on this week; the more they write about the villain the better their story will be.

Week 2:

Villain

Name:

Age:

Occupation:

Personality traits

Physical traits

Background

Dialect

What does the villain want?

How is the Hero standing in the way?

What power does the villain have?

What negative ideal does the villain embody?

What characteristic or trait makes the villain strong?

How does the villain cause the Hero to suffer?

What’s at stake for this character?

How does the villain show:

Arrogance?

Cowardice?

Courage?

Selfishness?

Rage?

Craftiness or intelligence?

How does the villain escalate the stakes for the Hero?

New Greek and Latin words:

Kyklos- circle

Amphi- both

eu- good

archos- chief, principal

arcus- bow, arc

circum- circle

ex- former

malus- bad

omnis- each, every, all

ambi- on both sides