Understanding the Visual Text
Where in the Visual Text can you identify a call to action and an empathetic tone in the written copy?
4. Look at Texts 1 and 2 and statements (a) and (b) below.
Decide whether the statements refer to Tex1, Text 2, both texts, or neither text.
Circle the answer you have chosen for each statement.
(a) Readers are encouraged to contact S.O.S if they are experiencing a personal crisis.
Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither
(b) The writer uses an empathetic tone.
Text 1 / Text 2 / Both / Neither
Understanding the question:
(a) ‘Readers are encouraged to contact S.O.S’ requires you to identify texts that signal a call to action.
(b) ‘empathetic tone’ requires you to identify content within the given Visual Text that is written in an understanding tone.
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(a) Both
(b) Text 1 [Feeling trapped in a situation? Overwhelmed by excruciating pain or immense stress?]
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