POSITIONALITY
What element of voice refers to the writer's choice of words?
Diction
What type of detail appeals to sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch?
Sensory Detail
This refers to the arrangement of lines and stanzas in a poem.
Structure
A printed infographic contains written explanations and photographs but no audio or video. What type of text is it?
Bimodal Text
True or False: Narrative truth means that writers are free to invent every detail of a supposedly factual event without considering honesty or credibility.
False
It refers to the writer's attitude toward the subject, audience, or situation
Tone
“The bitter coffee burned her tongue.” Which sense is primarily activated?
Taste / Gustatory Imagery
Music, sound effects, volume, pitch, and silence belong primarily to which mode?
Aural mode
What mode involves images, color, typography, symbols, and visual design?
Visual Mode
“The sour calamansi juice made her lips pucker.” What type of imagery is primarily used?
Gustatory imagery
Two students write about the same rainy afternoon. One uses playful language and jokes, while the other uses dark and serious language. Which concept explains why their writing feels different even though the topic is the same?
Voice
A character experienced rejection years ago. The event is over, but the experience continues to influence how the character trusts people. Is this better represented as the narrative wound or scar?
Narrative Scar
A poem that visually takes the shape of its subject is called this type of poem.
Concrete Poem
A film uses background music, sound effects, silence, and changes in volume to create suspense. Which mode is being emphasized?
Aural Mode
A student realizes that the entire paragraph is organized poorly and decides to rearrange the ideas. Is this global or local revision?
Global revision
Before writing about poverty, Lea realizes that she has never personally experienced extreme poverty and may have assumptions about people who do. What concept should she examine before developing her narrative?
Positionality
Vocabulary, sentence structure, written language, and spoken words primarily belong to which mode?
Linguistic mode
This type of poem has fourteen lines and is traditionally associated with a specific rhyme scheme and structure.
Sonnet
A speaker uses facial expressions, hand gestures, posture, and body movements while delivering a speech. Which mode is primarily involved?
Gestural Mode
A student changes “The students was excited” to “The students were excited.” What type of revision is this?
Local Revision
A student studies how a published author uses short sentences, dialogue, imagery, and first-person narration. The student then experiments with those techniques in an original piece without copying the author's work. What is the student practicing?
Mentor Text Analysis / Learning from a Mentor Text
What are the five commonly discussed modes of communication in multimodal texts?
Linguistic, visual, aural, gestural, and spatial
Elegy is a form of literature which can be defined as a poem or song in the form of elegiac couplets, written in honor of someone deceased.
A poster carefully places the title at the top, images in the center, and contact information at the bottom so the reader's eyes follow a particular path. Which mode is being used?
Spatial Mode
A student writes about poverty based only on assumptions about poor families. Which concept should the writer consider to recognize how their own background and perspective influence the writing?
Positionality