Vocabulary Test 2: Unit 4 & 5

The use of organizational patterns, text and graphic features, sentence structures, devices, and language to create an effective written work; may vary by genre

• Author's Purpose
• Author's Craft
• Organizational Pattern

The reason an author writes about a particular topic and the reason an author includes particular details, features, or devices in a work (ex: to persuade, to entertain, to inform)

• Author's purpose
• Author's craft
• Organizational pattern

The pattern an author constructs as he organizes his or her ideas and provides supporting details

• Author's purpose
• Author's craft
• Organizational pattern

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

• Multimodal text
• Digital text
• Informational text

The combining of two or more forms of communication to create meaning, including written and spoken texts, images, gestures, music, digital texts and media, and live performances

• Multimodal text
• Digital text
• Informational text

A text that presents information in order to explain, clarify, and/or educate.

• Multimodal text
• Digital text
• Informational text

To reduce large sections of text to their essential points and main idea.

• Paraphrase
• Summarize

Restate the meaning of something in different word by altering the exact wording of the source and transmits its ideas or information without evaluation or interpretation

• Paraphrase
• Summarize

Picture or other image within a text

• Text/print feature
• Graphic feature

Any characteristic of the text outside the main body of the text that helps convey meaning

• Text/print feature
• Graphic feature