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LA terms 7
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| antonym | A word that means the opposite of another word. |
| blog | A web site that contains an online personal journal with reflections, comments and often hyperlinks provided by the writer. |
| connectives | Anything which serves as a means of connecting one sentence to another or one paragraph to another; e.g., repetition, parallel structure, pronoun references, etc. |
| critical literacy | Includes an awareness of: the author, author's views and beliefs, intended audience, purpose, topic and message. |
| podcast | A digital recording of a broadcast, available on the Internet for downloading to a personal computer or audio player. |
| propaganda | Attempts to sway popular opinion and beliefs through distortions of the truth or outright lies. |
| run-on sentence | A written sequence of two or more main clauses that are not separated by a period or semicolon or joined by a conjunction. |
| setting | The environment or surroundings in which a story takes place; includes time, place, and situation in which the characters are placed. |
| simile | A comparison between two unlike things using like or as. For example, "My love is like a red, red rose." |
| simple sentence | Has one main clause consisting of a subject and a predicate. |