MNEMONIC FORMATION
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- The first letter of each word is combined into a new word. For example: VIBGYOR (or ROY G BIV) for the colors of the rainbow or HOMES (Lake Huron, Lake Ontario, Lake Michigan, Lake Erie, Lake Superior) the Great Lakes.
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- The first letter of each word is combined to form a phrase or sentence – e.g. Richard of York gave battle in vain for the colours of the rainbow.
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- 5. Ode mnemonics
- The information is placed into a poem or doggerel, – e.g. Note socer, gener, liberi, and Liber god of revelry, like puer these retain the 'e' (most Latin nouns of the second declension ending in -er drop the -e in all of the oblique cases except the vocative, these are the exceptions).
- 6. Note organization mnemonics
- The method of note organization can be used as a memorization technique. Applications of this method involve the use of flash cards and lists. Flash cards are used by putting a question or word on one side of a paper and the answer or definition on the other side of the paper. Lists involve the organization of data from broad to detailed. e.g. Earth → Continent → Country.
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- The information is constructed into a picture – e.g. the German weak declension can be remembered as five '-e's', looking rather like the state of Oklahoma in America, in a sea of '-en's'.
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- New knowledge is connected to knowledge already known.
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- 10. Analogy
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