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  • Multimodal texts include picture books, text books, graphic novels, comic, and posters, where meaning is conveyed to the reader through varying combinations of visual (still image) written language, and spatial modes.
  • multimodal is simply two or more communication processes or modes. A process can be understood as reading, writing, listening, speaking, and viewing.
  • Multimodal texts have the ability to improve comprehension for students.
  • Multimodal texts can also increase motivation.
  • A single mode of communication is reading a traditional print-based text with no pictures.
  • When pictures, video, music, and/or speaking are introduced, a multimodal text is created.
  • Multimodal texts do not need to be digital, as picture books, graphic novels, and posters are also multimodal.
  • Multimodal texts have the ability to improve comprehension for students, as learning through different modes provides different ways to understand information.
  • Multimodal texts can increase motivation by allowing students to learn in different modalities, such as reading, watching videos, and creating multimedia projects.
  • Allowing students to create multimodal texts can help them express their learning in different ways, as some students may struggle with traditional methods of testing and essay writing.
  • Paper-based multimodal texts include picture books, text books, graphic novels, comics, and posters.
  • An infographic, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is a visual representation of information or data.
  • An infographic is a collection of imagery, charts, and minimal text that gives an easy-to-understand overview of a topic.
  • Infographics are a valuable tool for visual communication.
  • The most visually unique, creative infographics are often the most effective, because they grab our attention and don't let go.
  • The goal of an infographic is not only to inform but also to make the viewing experience fun and engaging for your audience.
  • The goal of an infographic is to combine different graphic elements like colors, icons, images, illustrations and fonts to explain a topic in a compelling and easy-to-understand way.
  • A poster is a large printed picture or a notice that is used for advertising or decoration.
  • A graphic text presents ideas and information with the help of graphic features such as diagrams, photographs, drawings, sketches, patterns maps, charts or tables
  • A comic is a medium of narration using images combined with text. It is a medium of expression that communicates ideas via images. often combined with text or other forms of visual information.
  •  A picture is a visual representation of something, especially in the form of a painting, drawing, photograph, or the like. 
  •  Digital multimodal texts include film, animation, slide shows, e-posters, digital stories, podcasts, and web pages that may include hyperlinks to external pronunciation guides or translations.
  • A film, also known as a "movie" or a motion picture." is a series of moving images shown on a screen, usually with sound, that make up a story.
  • Animation It is the art of making inanimate objects appear to move. Animation is an artistic impulse that long predates the movies. 
  • Slideshows It is a presentation that is based on a series of projected images or photographic slides.
  • Oral presentation It is the delivery of an idea in front of a public audience.
  • Dance It is the expression of an idea or emotion through the use of body movements in a rhythmic way, accompanied with music.
  • Live multimodal texts, for example, dance, performance, and oral storytelling. convey meaning through combinations of various modes such as gestural, spatial, audio, and oral language.
  • Literal language is used to mean exactly what is written.
  • Figurative language is when you use a word or phrase that does not have its normal everyday, literal meaning.
  • Writers can use figurative language to make their work more interesting or more dramatic than literal language which simply states facts.
  • Figurative language involves descriptive phrases and sentences to convey a message and means something other than what is literally being said.
  • Figurative language is used to help readers implement their senses to understand or relate to ideas that are often complex and abstract.
  • Figurative language is creative wording used to build imagery to deepen the audience's understanding and help provide power to words by utilizing different emotional, visual and sensory connections.
  • Figurative language is an engaging means of verbal or written communication that can leave a lasting impact on the listener or reader when applied purposefully.
  • A simile is a comparison between two unlike things using the words "like" "as" or "than." Often used to highlight characteristic of one of the items, similes rely of the comparison and the audience's ability to create connections and make inferences about the two objects being discussed and understand the one similarity they share. 
  • Personification is attributing human characteristics to nonhuman things. This personifies objects and makes them more relatable.
  • Onomatopoeia is the use of descriptive words that found or mimic the noise are describing.
  • An oxymoron is a description using two opposite ideas to create an effective description. The format is often an adjective proceeded by a noun.
  • A hyperbole is an over-exaggeration used to emphasize an emotion or description. Sometimes hyperbole also implements the use of simile and comparative words.