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LA
Language Arts
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Annotation | a critical or explanatory note or body of notes added to a text |
| Figurative language | language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors |
| Extraneous | introduced or coming from without; not belonging or proper to a thing; external; foreign: |
| Inference | the act or process of inferring. |
| Imagery | the formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively: |
| Detail | attention to or treatment of a subject in individual or minute parts: |
| Diction | the accent, inflection, intonation, and speech-sound quality manifested by an individual speaker, usually judged in terms of prevailing standards of acceptability; enunciation. |
| Text | the main body of matter in a manuscript, book, newspaper, etc., as distinguished from notes, appendixes, headings, illustrations, etc. |
| Evidence | that which tends to prove or disprove something; ground for belief; proof. |
| Syntax | the study of the rules for the formation of grammatical sentences in a language. |
| Genre | a class or category of artistic endeavor having a particular form, content, technique, or the like: |
| Tone | any sound considered with reference to its quality, pitch, strength, source, etc.: |
| Fact | something that actually exists; reality; truth: |
| Summary | a comprehensive and usually brief abstract, recapitulation, or compendium of previously stated facts or statements. |
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