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Spears: Developing Critical Reading Skills
Developing Critical Reading Skills, 6/e
Deanne Spears, City College of San Francisco

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Chapter Objectives

Language and Its Effects on the Reader

In this chapter, we will be concerned with language in prose writing--with words and the effect the writer intends them to have on you. Specifically, we will examine these elements of language:


Denotation and Connotation

Figurative Language (Metaphors, Similes, and Personification)

Language Misused and Abused