You have started reading Antigone. You may encounter words that you are unfamiliar with. What is a context clue and how can you use it to your advantage when reading?

Context clues are when you take a look to find hints or clues to find the definition of the word you are unfamiliar with. Most of the time, you look for a word near the unfamiliar one, and it might end up having a similar meaning. You can use this to you’re advantage by trying to figure out the definitions of new words without looking them up.

A morpheme is the smallest unit of a word that provides a specific meaning to a string of letters (which is called a phoneme). There are two main types of morpheme: free morphemes and bound morphemes.