Key Textual Concepts
This concept refers to descriptive language which engages our senses – sight, sound, smell, taste, touch.
What is imagery?
This language technique is where you compare two things using the words "like" or "as".
What is a simile?
This film technique is where the camera is angled down towards a subject.
What is a high camera angle?
This type of writing refers to when the life history of an individual is written by someone else.
This novel is the last text we read together. It is about a young asylum seeker who travels from Afghanistan to Italy.
What is 'In the Sea there are Crocodiles'?
This concept refers to pictures, colours or objects that represent something else, usually something abstract.
What are symbols/symbolism?
This language technique is where you compare two things without using the words "like" or "as".
What is a metaphor?
This film technique is where a camera is angled up at a subject.
What is a low camera angle?
This type of writing is where the life history of an individual is written by that person.
What is an autobiography?
This type of person is someone who has applied for the right to seek safety in a foreign country.
What is an asylum seeker?
This concept refers to the way that we organise thoughts and make sense of things that happen to us or to other people.
What is narrative?
This language technique is where non-human things are given human qualities.
What is personification?
This film technique is where the camera shows a subject in close-range, typically focusing on the face.
What is a close-up shot?
This genre of writing refers to something that is based on facts and real events.
What is non-fiction?
This type of person is someone who has been granted safety by another country. They are allowed to live in that country, safe from harm. They once an asylum seeker.
What is a refugee?
This concept refers to an idea or feeling that we connect to a word. It is more than the word's basic meaning; denotation.
What is a connotation?
This language technique is where you use extreme exaggeration.
What is a hyperbole?
This film technique is where the camera introduces a scene/setting from a distance.
What is an establishing shot?
This autobiography by Anh Do is the first text we read at the start of the year.
What is 'The Happiest Refugee'?
This type of paragraph writing is what you just completed for your assessment task.
What is a SETEEL paragraph?
This concept refers to how we depict objects, ideas or issues. How we represent things is influenced by our experiences, beliefs and cultural background.
What is representation?
This language technique is where you put two contrasting things placed close together.
What is juxtaposition?
This film technique refers to when sound comes from within a film, which characters can hear.
What is diegetic sound?
This type of writing refers to a short, personal story shared to entertain, make a point, or connect with the audience. They are used within a larger story or piece of writing.
What is an anecdote?
This is the fourth country Enaiat travelled to in the novel, 'In the Sea there are Crocodiles'?
What is Turkey?