7th Grade RLA: Unit 05 Flashcards

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What is the term for the intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium?

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audience

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What is the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work called?

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author's craft

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What is the reason an author writes about a particular topic or includes particular details, features, or devices in a work called?

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author's purpose

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What do you call the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage?

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context

Front

What is an electronic text read or heard on a computer or other electronic device that may include images, sound, video, and other multimodal interactive and embedded elements called?

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digital text

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What is the type or class of a work, usually categorized by form, technique, or content called?

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genre

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What are important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc. called?

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key idea

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What is the strategic integration of two or more modes of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances called?

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multimodal text

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What is the pattern an author constructs as he or she organizes his or her ideas and provides supporting details, such as cause and effect, problem and solution, description, and order of importance called?

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organizational pattern

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What is it called when you restate the meaning of something in different words, altering the exact wording of the source and transmitting its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation?

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paraphrase