Textual Aids in Understanding Texts Flashcards
Textual Aids
These simplify comprehension of texts. Uses graphical outlines or images that give general idea of a topic
Linear Text
A tradional text that needs to be read from beginning to end to make sense of the text
Nonlinear Text
Not required to be read from beginning to end since its reading path is non-sequential
Cause-and-Effect diagram
Is one example of textual aids that helps in identifying the causes and effects of a situation/happening.
Is one example of a textual aid that shows sequence or a step by step process
Flow chart
Are textual aids that have visual displays and show key content
Graphic Organizer
helps you in creating an outline before writing an essay
Hamburger Writing Graphic Organizer
Ishikawa diagram is an example of a cause and effects digram, also called as
Fishbone Diagram
Is an example of a textual aid that can show the central thought with its matching characteristics
Concept Map
Textual aids that uses picture
Pictograph
actors or mover in a story
Characters
Characterization
A writer’s tool, or “literary device that occurs anytime the author uses details to teach us about a person
Plot
Arrangement of story
Exposition
Beginning of the story where characters and settings are revealed
Against the main character
Antagonist
Main character of a story
Protagonist
Rising action
Conflict is revealed
Struggles with own soul, physical limitation, choices, etc.
Character vs. self
Struggle with a force outside one’s self
External
Struggles against other people
Character vs. character
Struggles against an animals, weather, environment, etc
Character vs. nature
Character vs. society
Struggles against ideas, practices, or customsof others
Interesting/turning point of a story,
Climax
Where the resolution begins
Falling action
Is the final outcome of events in the story
Resolution
Refers to the time and location when and where a story takes place.
Setting
Geographical location
Place
Period or time when the story occurs
Time
Is it rainy, sunny, stormy, etc.?
Weather conditions
What is the daily life of the character’s like? Does the story contain local color(writing that focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, etc. of a particular place)?
Social conditions
Writing that focuses on the speech, dress, mannerisms, customs, etc. of a particular place
Local color
What feeling is created at the beginning od the story?
Mood or Atmosphere
Struggle of the main character
Conflict
