12 Essential - CIA Prep

Which of the following is NOT a visual text

• poster

• infographic poster

• advertisement

• webpage

Language features are/have...

• visual and digital features

• graphics, still and moving, facial expressions

• gestures ,proximity, stance, colour,

• camera angles, texture, shapes, lines

• headings, paragraphs, formatting

Select which answer best describes text structures

• how information is organised: layout, headings, paragraphs, sequencing, foregrounding and backgrounding,

• how information looks: layout, colour, shape

• how visuals are organised: pictures, high modality language, shape

• how text is high modality or low modality

True or false: Cultural assumptions, Values, Attitudes and beliefs are about gender, religion, ethnicity, youth, age, social class

• True

• False

True or false: Cultural assumptions, Values, Attitudes and beliefs usually underpin texts and position audiences

• True

• False

Which of the following does NOT fit our understanding of 'representation' in this unit?

• The way in which the media constructs aspects of ‘real life’ including people, places, events, culture, ethnicity and AGE.

• The media doesn't just present reality they re-present it.

• Representation is just a concept of reality which has been created

• Representations are not political

A stereotype is best described as...

• a preconceived and over-simplified idea of the characteristics which typify a person, place or thing

• a type of stereo

• a set of facts determined by gossip

• a preconceived and under-simplified idea of how a person acts

Culture...

• has to do with values and beliefs

• involves customs and traditions

• everyone has a culture

• is transmitted from generation to generation

• culture is not learnt you are born with it

Colour is a

• text feature

• language feature

• genre

• cultural assumption, attitude/belief

A quote is a

• language feature

• text feature

• genre

• cultural assumption, attitude/belief