General English 11: Key Terms

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Across
  1. 4. choose and arrange subject matter, evidence, quotations and other textual information and combine them into a coherent whole text
  2. 5. or characters in texts who are representations of identities in (lived) cultural and social contexts
  3. 7. morphology and syntax to create and express meaning in texts, by systematic arrangement of words, phrases, clauses and sentences to express meaning in texts for particular purposes
  4. 9. characteristics, qualities, philosophical and emotional stances, e.g. moral principles or standards, often shared with others in a cultural group
  5. 13. aspects of texts (such as words, sentences, images), how they are arranged, and how they affect meaning; examples of stylistic devices include narrative viewpoint, approaches to characterisation, structure of stanzas, juxtaposition, nominalisation and lexical choice
  6. 15. categories into which texts are grouped
  7. 16. features of vocabulary, syntax and grammar that bind different parts of a text together; examples include connectives, ellipses, synonyms; in multimodal texts examples include establishing shots in films and icons for links on web pages
  8. 17. to develop a text logically and purposefully, e.g. to arrange information in paragraphs to ensure meaning is clear
Down
  1. 1. opinions or ideas about an issue
  2. 2. constructions that give shape to ways of thinking about or acting in the world; texts re-present concepts, identities, times and places, underpinned by the cultural assumptions, attitudes, beliefs, values or world view of the writer, shaper, speaker/signer, designer (and of the reader, viewer, listener)
  3. 3. ideas, beliefs or attitudes about such things as gender, religion, ethnicity, youth, age, disability, sexuality, social class and work that are taken for granted as being part of the fabric of the social practices of a particular culture; cultural assumptions underpin texts and can be used to position audiences
  4. 6. genre’s distinguishing structures, features and patterns that relate to context, purpose and audience
  5. 8. or themes embedded in a text
  6. 10. decisions about the selection of vocabulary that is appropriate to particular purposes and contexts
  7. 11. convictions that people have based on opinion
  8. 12. refers to those aspects of texts that prompt emotional and critical reactions; as such, the aesthetic is closely tied to reader/audience positioning; aesthetic features and stylistic devices may draw upon and interplay with textual features used for other purposes
  9. 14. the context of a text, its historical and social setting