Text Features and Graphic Features: Vocabulary

dark type used to emphasize important vocabulary

• boldface words

• index

• heading

• glossary

listing of important facts set off from regular text

• boldface words

• glossary

• bulleted list

• index

text with a graphic that gives details about it

• subheading

• title

• caption

• contents

lists each book chapter in sequence and the page on which

it starts

• index

• caption

• glossary

• table of contents

mini-dictionary at the end of a book that defines each

boldface word

• index

• contents

• glossary

• boldface words

name of a selection, chapter, or section

• heading

• glossary

• sidebar

• title

alphabetical list at the back of a book identifying

important ideas in the book and pages on which each idea

is mentioned

• index

• glossary

• table of contents

• sidebar

slanted italic type used for book titles, foreign words, a

word as an example of a word (the word word), or for

emphasis

• boldface words

• italicized words

• irrelevant words

• vocabulary

information placed beside the main text, often in a box,

that expands on an idea in the text

• sidebar

• glossary

• caption

• index

divides a selection into parts and tells what each part is about

• contents

• title

• subhead

• glossary