ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

LITERATURE QUESTIONS

ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The WAY that text is organized, such as chronological or time sequence for a story, is called
A
text structure
B
text purpose
C
direct characterization
D
the theme
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This text structure gives readers a chronological of events or a list of steps in a procedure.

Detailed explanation-2: -Chronology is a text structure that describes events in the order they occur. Words such as first, next, during, and finally signal this text structure, as do dates that tell when the events happened.

Detailed explanation-3: -Researchers have identified five basic organizational structures: sequence, description, cause and effect, compare and contrast, and problem and solution.

Detailed explanation-4: -When information in a passage is organized by the time in which each event occurred, it is organized chronologically. Nonfiction passages that are organized chronologically often contains dates. Fiction passages or narratives are more subtle and are organized chronologically but usually have no dates.

Detailed explanation-5: -Examples of text structures include: sequence/process, description, time order/chronology, proposition/support, compare/contrast, problem/solution, cause/effect, inductive/deductive, and investigation.

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