Simile or Metaphor
Dom is as slow as a turtle.
Simile
Woof, woof
Onomatopoeia
The placement and arrangement of elements in a visual text.
What is Layout?
Range of colours often used deliberately in visual texts for symbolic meaning.
What is Colour palette?
You are the apple of my eye.
Metaphor
Marvin makes money moving boxes.
Alliteration
The area furthest from the viewer, behind the subject, or in the distance.
What is Background?
the difference between two elements that makes important parts of an image stand out. Example: light and dark, big and small
What is Contrast?
Rita is an angel.
Metaphor
The plates crashed when the waitress bumped into the wall.
Onomatopoeia
A word or concrete object that represents something else, especially an object representing something that is abstract. Example: a heart symbolises love
What is Symbolism?
The real or implied lines in an image that guide your eyes toward the most important part.
What are Vectors?
You are as skinny as a pole.
Simile
The bees buzzed in the girl's ear.
Alliteration AND Onomatopoeia
An element that is repeated in a text. It may also be repeated and woven throughout the text, such as a colour motif
What is Motif?
The movement of a viewer’s gaze around the visual text. This movement can be demonstrated by lines of sight, or vectors.
What is Reading Path?
What's the difference between a simile and a metaphor?
A simile uses the words like or as to compare.
What is Alliteration?
What is Onomatopoeia?
When two or more words that start with the same sound are used repeatedly in a phrase or a sentence.
A word that sounds like its meaning & is usually spelled out/pronounced in a book, poetry, or song
Placing things side by side or close together, often to emphasise similarity or difference.
What is Juxtaposition?
Importance given to particular elements in an image. For example: The size, expression and foreground position of an object demands the viewer’s attention first.
What is Salience?