Focused Reteach - AP Lang

What is the main objective of audience awareness?

• To determine the author's needs

• To determine the audience's needs by making inferences about the content of a text

• To write a summary of the text

• To analyze the author's writing style.

Fill in the blank: Audience awareness involves determining what the author anticipated their audience's needs were by making ______ about the content of a text.

• guesses

• inferences

• assumptions

• summaries

What is the main strategy to determine the audience's understanding according to the text?

• Guessing

• Asking directly

• Analyzing the author's language choices

• Reading reviews

Fill in the blank: The use of English-specific jargon can indicate that the author believes the audience ______ these terms.

• dislikes

• misunderstands

• understands

• ignores

What might I look for in the text to either confirm or deny that the author anticipates their audience prefers watching film adaptations of novels rather than reading the books?

• more details about the film adaptation of a novel than details about the novel

• They are more influenced by nonfiction than fiction.

• They are unlikely to accept the results of psychological experiments conducted in a laboratory.

• They may not be aware of the features of totalitarian-dystopian fiction.

• more details about the novel than details about the film adaptation