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LA terms 13
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brochure | A booklet of printed informational matter, like a pamphlet, often for promotional purposes. |
| chronological order | Events are arranged in the order in which they happened (time order). |
| cite evidence | Examples in a text that support your answer. |
| colloquial language | Language characteristic of everyday informal speech. For example, the phrase, "You're getting on my nerves!" |
| deconstruction | Breaking a text down into its components to see what messages and assumptions it carries. |
| prose | The ordinary form of spoken or written language that has no metrical rhythm; contrasts with poetic writing or verse; uses conventions such as sentences, capitalization, paragraphs, titles, etc.; short story, novel, essay, newspaper, letter, etc. |
| satire | A blend of wit, irony, and humor used to reveal and criticize human characteristics. |
| skim | Reading quickly to get the general idea of the text. |
| traits of writing | Includes ideas, voice, sentence structure/fluency, organization, word choice and conventions. |
| understatement | A figure of speech in which the speaker says less than what he or she actually feels; the opposite of exaggeration. |
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