Poetic Techniques
"His heart was as cold as ice."
What is a Simile?
"Her voice was pure velvet."
What is a Metaphor?
"Do we really want our children growing up in a world buried under plastic waste?"
What is a Rhetorical Question?
A camera shot taken from far away that shows the setting, location, and atmosphere at the beginning of a scene.
What is an Establishing Shot?
This Netball team recently won the Gold Medal at the Commonwealth Games
Who are the Silver Ferns?
"The ancient trees stretched their tired arms toward the sky."
What is Personification?
"The golden crust burst with the warm, buttery scent of baked apples and cinnamon."
What is Sensory Language?
"Every time you choose fast fashion, you are deciding what kind of world you want to live in."
What is Direct Address / Targeted Pronouns?
A camera angle positioned looking up at a character to make them appear powerful, intimidating, or heroic.
What is a Low Angle Shot?
Robert Pattinson and Zendaya are set to star in this many movies together this year.
What is 3?
"She sells seashells by the seashore."
What is Sibilance?
This technique focuses on subtle hints or clues placed early in a story that warn the reader about something major that will happen later on.
What is Foreshadowing?
"We must work together, fight together, and win together."
What is Tricolon (Rule of Three)?
A French term meaning "placing on stage," it refers to everything visible in front of the camera. This includes sets, lighting, props, and costumes.
What is Mise-en-scène?
This is the only official national flag in the world that does not have four right angles
What is the flag of Nepal?
Derived from the French word for "straddling," this technique occurs when a line of poetry runs into the next line without any terminal punctuation.
What is Enjambment?
"A fire station burning down to the ground while the firefighters are out on a call."
What is Irony?
This technique is the telling of a short, personal story or real-life example that is used by a writer to illustrate a point and connect emotionally with the reader.
What is an Anecdote?
A rapid sequence of short, edited shots used to condense time, space, or information into a brief cinematic segment.
What is a Montage?
In 1932, the Australian military lost an actual military conflict against these native birds that were destroying Western Australian farmland .
What are Emus?
This technique focuses on the internal repetition of vowel sounds (such as "ee" in green, leaves and glistened)
What is Assonance?
A dark, violent thunderstorm pouring down as I watched the coffin get lowered into the ground.
What is Pathetic Fallacy
Ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle identified three core modes of persuasion: Ethos (credibility) and Pathos (emotion). This third term refers to appealing to logic, facts, and reason.
What is Logos?
Sound whose source is visible on screen or implied to be present in the action. Examples include character dialogue or a footsteps in the room.
What is Diagetic Sound?
Created to help settle arguments that regularly broke out in taverns and drinking establishments, this famous yearly book was directly commissioned by the managing director of a major Irish brewery in 1954.
What is the Guinness Book of World Records?