Author Choices and Audience Worksheet
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Author Choices and Audience Worksheet
Grade 8 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 creative comparison such as a simile or metaphor is a kind of figurative __.
2. Which explanation best analyzes author choice?
3. Match the phrase to its likely effect: limited narrator
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4. When an author writes for a particular group of readers, that group is the target __.
5. Why is evidence still necessary when discussing tone or irony?
6. Which sentence best shows a rhetorical question used for effect?
7. A careful explanation of what a language choice does for readers is an analysis of rhetorical __.
8. Why can the same event feel different in two texts?
📋 Teacher Answer Key
1. language
2. The writer uses sharp, ironic phrasing to criticize the plan without stating the criticism directly.
3. creates gaps in knowledge for the reader
4. audience
5. Readers need text details that show how the choice creates the claimed effect
6. How many more warnings do we need before we finally act?
7. effect
8. Different points of view, tones, and language choices can guide audiences toward different reactions