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Monday, April 26, 2010

English 10

Today we examined the style of Laurie Halse-Anderson.

Students handed in their pp. 22-46 sheet on Speak.

We noted three things that distinguished her writing style: she uses many, vivid figures of speech (e.g. metaphors, hyperboles, similes); she uses sentence fragments; she uses a disjointed narrative to show how Melinda's mind wanders.