8th 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 term for the intentional and deliberate use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work?

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author's craft

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Reason an author writes about a topic or includes details, features, or devices in a work.

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author's purpose

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What is the term for the words, sentences, or passages that precede or follow a specific word, sentence, or passage?

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context

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Term for 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.

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digital text

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

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genre

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What is the term for important ideas throughout a work that support the central message, theme, tone, etc.?

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key idea

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What is the term for 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?

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multimodal text

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What is the term for 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?

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organizational pattern

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What is the term for restating 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