Visual Elements
This color often symbolizes danger.
What is red?
The use of repeated words, images, or structures to reinforce urgency, or call attention to details.
What is repetition?
What is diction?
When an author gives a hint or clue about something that will happen later.
What is foreshadowing?
An appeal to credibility, or ethics.
What is ethos?
This is element of a visual text describes how it is organized spatially.
What is the layout?
The placing of contrasting elements side by side.
What is juxtaposition?
It influences how the message comes across and is perceived. Describes the author's attitude towards the subject.
What is tone?
Another phrase for the perspective of a text.
What is the point of view?
This is an appeal to emotion- example: a sad personal story.
What is pathos?
This authorial choice describes the position from which a subject is filmed or shown, and can convey dominance or power.
What is the camera angle?
Using similar patterns in writing to create balance.
What is parallel structure?
Similes, metaphors, idioms, and hyperbole are examples of this.
What is figurative language?
Authors use this type of language to bring their audience in and build a connection with them.
What is inclusive language?
Why do authors appeal to ethos (ethics), pathos (emotion), or logos (logic)?
To persuade by targeting audience beliefs.
The purposes behind the use of typography.
What are guiding emphasis and tone?
Describe the purpose of using contrast in a text.
To emphasize differences and enhance understanding.
The repeated use of the same consonant sound to start several words.
What is alliteration?
Give an example of an allusion, or something that allusions are made to often.
Responses vary, the Bible is the most commonly alluded to text
What is a rhetorical question?
Provide an example of how imagery enhances a text.
Evokes emotions, help create a more vivid scene, establishes the mood.
Give an example of juxtaposition.
Light/dark, good/evil, weak/powerful, wealth/poverty, old/new, etc.
What is the purpose of using statistics or facts in a text?
Appeals to logic (logos) and builds credibility (ethos).
What is the purpose of conflict in a text?
To drive the plot forward and develop characters.
Give an example of a rhetorical question.
When will enough be enough?