Which term best describes the organizational system of a passage, including how ideas are arranged?

• A. Infer
• B. Setting
• C. Text structure
• D. Stereotype

Answer: (C)

Understanding how a passage is organized—the way ideas are arranged and connected—helps you see how the author builds meaning. The term that best describes that organizational system is text structure. Text structure refers to the plan or pattern guiding how ideas and details are presented, whether the writing follows a sequence of events, explains causes and effects, presents a problem and its solution, describes a topic, or compares and contrasts items. You can spot it by noticing transitions and signal words that cue the pattern, like first, next, because, therefore, or similarly.

Infer focuses on drawing conclusions not explicitly stated, setting refers to where and when a story takes place, and stereotype means an oversimplified fixed idea about a group. So text structure is the right concept because it captures the way the author organizes information across the passage.