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LA Test
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Credible | Reasonable to trust or believe |
| Enculturation | The slow and day-to-day process of learning your group’s culture as an infant and a child |
| Assimilation | to cause (a person or group) to become part of a different society, country, etc. |
| Diversity | the state of having people who are different races or who have different cultures in a group or organization |
| Reiterate | to repeat something you have already said in order to emphasize it |
| Extract | to remove (something) by pulling it out or cutting it out |
| Concrete | relating to or involving specific people, things, or actions rather than general ideas or qualities |
| Imagery | Language that causes people to imagine pictures in their mind |
| Analogy | a comparison of two things based on their being alike in some way |
| Metaphor | an object, activity, or idea that is used as a symbol of something else — often + for ▪ |
| Simile | a phrase that uses the words like or as to describe someone or something bycomparing it with someone or something else that is similar [count |
| Acrostic Poems | An acrostic (ákros "top"; stíchos "verse") is a poem or other form of writing in which the first letter, syllable or word of each line, paragraph or other recurring feature in the text spells out a word or a message. ... |
| Refrain | a phrase or verse that is repeated regularly in a poem or song |
| Denotation | The literal/real meaning of a word or phrase |
| Connotation | How a word or phrase makes you feel |
| Symbolism | Using a word or picture to represent a particular idea, feeling, or meaning |
| Aspiration | something that a person wants very much to achieve |