7th Grade RLA: Unit 02B Flashcards

Front

The intended target group for a message, regardless of the medium is called ________.

Back

audience

Front

The intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work is called ________.

Back

author's craft

Front

The reason an author writes about a particular topic (e.g., to persuade, to entertain, to inform, to explain, to analyze, etc.); the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work is called ________.

Back

author's purpose

Front

The method in which an author constructs a character by explicitly stating aspects of his/her personality and appearance or by revealing aspects of a character through their actions, thoughts, speech, other characters, etc. is called ________.

Back

characterization

Front

The words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage are called ________.

Back

context

Front

The lines spoken between characters in fiction or a play are called ________.

Back

dialogue

Front

Literary works written in a stage play format which includes dialogue and stage directions that is intended to be performed are called ________.

Back

drama

Front

A stage in the writing process when a written text is prepared for an audience by attending to and correcting mechanics, grammar, and spelling is called ________.

Back

editing

Front

Language not intended to be taken literally but layered with meaning through the use of imagery, metaphors, and other literary devices is called ________.

Back

figurative language

Front

A literary device used by an author to provide hints about future events and details that may occur later in the story is called ________.

Back

foreshadowing