Film
techniques
Persuasive Techniques
Language Techniques
Parts of speech
Visual techniques
100

An object fills the frame / screen, provides detail of facial and highlight emotions. What is the camera shot

Close up

100

The use of words such as 'we' or 'our' to allow the reader to feel included in the discussion.

Inclusive language

100

A comparison of two unlike things using 'like' or 'as'.

Simile

100

A person, place of thing. What is the part of speech?

Noun

100

The most prominent or noticeable image on a page. The first thing your eyes are drawn to?

Salient image

200

Camera shoots the scene from below subject seems large & powerful. What is the angle?

Low angle shot

200

A question that makes the reader think but doesn't require an answer.

Rhetorical question

200

A comparison of two unlike things that goes further to state one thing IS another

Metaphor

200

A word that describes another word.

Adjective

200

An imaginary line that our eyes follow from one part of a text to another on a page.

Vector or reading path

300

Camera shoots the scene from above subject seems small, powerless & insignificant. What is the camera angle?

High angle shot

300

A short, personal story which is often used to illustrate a point.

Anecdote

300

Inanimate (non-living) objects or ideas are given human qualities.

Personification

300

An action or doing word. 

Verb

300

A type of gaze where the figure/character is looking directly out of the page at the audience?

Demand gaze

400

Camera moves left or right and it creates interest and drama. What is the camera movement?

panning

400

An overused phrase, that is easily recognised by the reader. eg. Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

Cliche

400

Repetition of a consonant sound in words with close connection eg She sells sea shells by the seashore.

Alliteration

400

A word that describes a verb eg gently, loudly.

Adverb

400

The foreground and the background creates what in an image?

Depth of field

500

A French term that refers to all the elements that go into a frame when creating a camera shot?

Mise-en-scene

500

Writers use exaggeration to heighten the implications of an issue.

Hyperbole

500

Mimicking the sound of a word eg tic toc, bang, whoosh.

Onomatopoeia

500

A word that stands in for a noun in a sentence eg he, she , I , you?

Pronoun

500

This can create symbolism, mood or atmosphere to an image.

colour

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