The graphics card translates the software requests to show information into the kind of signals that the monitor can interpret: basically "scan lines": "This level Red, That level Green, The other level Blue" for each pixel across the screen, then a "next scan line" marker, and repeat for the whole screen.
The screen knows nothing about text or graphics, it just understands pixel information, in the form of electrical signals.
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