What is salient text?

Question

Can anyone give any examples of salient text? A description of it would also help. Thanks.

Answer 1

There are two types of salient text. One is figurative, the other literal.
Salient means something that stands out, so the salient text would be text that was done in bold-face, or in italics, or some other font or face that would make it stand out from the rest of the text.
Salient points, in literature, or in debate, are those points that stand out from the mass of verbage surrounding it.
For example, you will sometimes see a couple of pages of description in a text book, followed by two or three bullets (those little round black circles that sit in the middle of the space, above the line) that summarize what the previous pages have said. It's like a reprise, to remind you of what you just read.
At times it is done the other way around, with the bullets first, giving the salient facts, then the pages of discussion about those facts follow.
Sometimes the salient facts are not separated out physically, but when you read the paragraph, one line will stand out in your mind. It is usually a key piece of information.
One very good way to study is to jot down the salient facts as you come to them. Then you can go back and review them, hitting the highlights of the text rather than re-reading all the lead-in and discussion material.
Hope this helps.

Answer 2

What Is Salient

Answer 3

The word "salient" means appropriate, pertinent, necessary..that kind of definition.....

Therefore, whatever material you are considering, any and all texts that are important, appropriate...etc etc etc could be said to be "salient"

Answer 4

I think it is when you have sex in public where people can see? I could be wrong but you can be sure I'll research this because I don't know if I've even heard of it.