Multimodal Text
This mode relates to images, color, drawings, symbols.
What is Visual Mode?
This story follows a family put in conflict after a man drops off a mysterious device and offers them money if they use it.
What is Button, Button?
These are human traits given to non-humans
What is Personification?
This lens focuses on identity, values and beliefs, stereotypes, power dynamics, social expectations
What is the Cultural Lens?
This is a writing system using symbols representing sounds and ideas.
What is Egyptian Hieroglyphics?
This is the first era of Comic Books, known for patriotism and very clear heroes and villains.
What is the Golden Age?
This is the part of the essay that gets the audience interested.
What is the Hook?
This the the main protagonist of Kindred.
Who is Dana?
This type of text tells a story.
What is a Narrative?
This mode relates to written work, dialogue, and phrasing.
What is Linguistic Mode?
In this story, the murder weapon is eaten.
What is Lamb to the Slaughter?
This is repeated consonant sounds
What is alliteration?
This lens focuses on, time period, social and political conditions, historical events, and how text reflects its era.
What is the Historical Lens?
This is the ancient writing system used in Mesopotamia.
What is Cuneiform?
This era is known for its expansion into science fiction during the Cold War.
What is the Silver Age?
This contains the main argument of the essay.
What is the Thesis Statement?
This is a white child who becomes a slave owner.
Who is Rufus?
This type of story teaches or explains something.
What is Information Text?
This mode relates to facial expressions, body language, movement (comics/film)
What is the Gestural Mode?
This story is historical Science-Fiction that follows a woman who can time travel.
What is Kindred?
This is a comparison without like/as
What is a metaphor?
This lens focuses on structure, word choice, patterns, symbolism, irony, repetition, tone, and imagery
What is the Formalist Lens?
This is the first recorded types of "books" in history.
What are Codices?
This is an age that treats comics as a serious form of literature, with graphic novels such as Mouse and The Watchmen.
What is the Modern Era?
This explains the main point of the paragraph.
What is the claim?
This is the white husband that is left behind in the past
Who is Kevin?
This type of text tries to convince the audience.
What is a Persuasive Text?
This mode relates to sound, music, pitch, sound effects (film, audio text).
What is the Aural Mode?
This is the literary device used when the audience knows something that characters in the story do not.
What is Dramatic Irony?
This is extreme exaggeration
What is hyperbole?
This is a key question asked when using the historical lens.
What is how does history shape the story? (Or anything similar)
This was responsible for the translation of Hieroglyphics.
What is The Rosetta Stone?
This is a darker, more socially aware era that echoes the social and political unrest in America such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights Movement.
What is the Bronze Age?
This explains how evidence supports your argument.
What is reasoning?
This is the enslaved Black woman forced into a relationship
Who is Alice?
This type of text helps someone complete a task.
What is a Functional Text?
This mode relates to layout, arrangement, placement of elements.
What is the Spatial Mode?
This is the driving force behind character motivations in Button, Button.
What is Greed (Or Materialism)
This contrast between expectation and reality
What is irony?
This is a key question asked when using the cultural lens.
What is how do cultural values influence characters and meaning?
This is the Babylonian legal code carved in stone that states "An eye for an eye".
What is The Code of Hammurabi?
This is the current era that focuses on diverse representation and inclusivity.
What is the Contemporary Era?
This is the first part of your conclusion.
What is restate thesis statement?
This symbol represent how the scars and trauma of the past can pass through generations.
What is Dana's lost arm?
This can be a very important tool for power, control, and order.
What is writing?