Author's Choices and Audience Worksheet
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Author's Choices and Audience Worksheet
Grade 7 English Language Arts LearnCrux.com
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Directions
- Fill in each blank carefully.
- Circle or mark the best answer for each multiple-choice question.
- Match each prompt to the best option before writing your answer.
- Use the larger space to show your thinking on word problems.
1. A style suited to serious audiences and purposes is called __ style.
2. Which audience would most likely require formal style?
3. Match the idea to the best explanation: audience
Match with:
Answer:
4. Tone analysis should be supported with language __ from the text.
5. Why can style change when the audience changes?
6. Which statement best explains effect?
7. The overall attitude a writer creates is called __.
8. Why should language analysis explain meaning and effect together?
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. formal
2. a school board
3. the people a writer expects to read or hear the text
4. evidence
5. Writers adjust their language choices so the message fits the needs, expectations, and purpose of that audience
6. The repeated urgent verbs create pressure and make the warning feel immediate.
7. tone
8. Author choices matter because they shape both what the text communicates and how the reader experiences it