All About that Vocab
Can be a literal element (like an object, name, or gesture) that also stands for an abstract idea.
What is a symbol?
The creator references another work, person, event, or cultural element—often without directly naming it. The reference is usually brief and relies on the audience’s familiarity with the subject to add deeper meaning or context.
What is an allusion (alluding)?
This is the part of the story that introduces the characters, shows some of their interrelationships, and places them within a believable time and place.
What is the exposition?
What is the only movie we've watched in class?
What is The Incredibles (2004)
Struggle between the central character and another character or between the central character and a nonhuman force (e.g. fate, society, nature).
What is an external conflict?
This is the point at which the complication reaches its maximum tension and the forces in opposition confront each other at the peak of physical or emotional action.
What is the climax?
This emphasizes cause‑and‑effect events, with each moment directly contributing to the next.
What is chronological/linear story telling?
A story in which every object, event, and person has an immediately discernable abstract or metaphorical meaning.
What is an allegory?
Name 2 elements of a good story.
- unified plot
- credible
- interesting
- simple and complex
- handles emotional material with restraint
a story that begins with an exciting incident that happens after the complication has developed
What is in media res?
The primary struggle in between different aspects of a single personality.
What is an internal conflict?
Used to give hints or clues about events that will happen later in the story. It builds anticipation, creates suspense, and helps the audience make connections as the plot unfolds.
What is foreshadowing?
the conclusion where the conflict(s) are resolved; the character looks back on their experience and shares what they learned, how they changed, the significance.
What is the resolution/denouement?
Name any 3 of the 5 major elements of a film's focus.
- Ideas/themes
- Plot
- Emotional effect or mood
- Character
- Style or structure
To go back in time during a film
What is a flashback?
Subjective is opinion based, while objective is factual and evidence based.
Define dramatic foil.
When a character's traits (personality or physical) drastically contrast with another character's to emphasize the main character's (protagonist's) qualities.
This means resisting the director’s message and focusing only on personal interpretations.
What is subjective/biased viewership/analysis?
Name an essential question from Unit 1.
- How do we determine a film’s focus?
- What are the elements of a good story?
- What are the obstacles to the objective viewing process and analysis of films?
- How are literary devices used in films?
- How is crafting a film and crafting text similar?
A literary, dramatic, and cinematic technique involving the juxtaposition or linking of opposites; situational and dramatic.
These develop characters more than they relate the plots to one another.
What are episodic plotlines?
How is a motif different than a theme?
Repeatedly used throughout the film to highlight and aspect or variation of the film's theme.
Name a fun fact about Ms. Boone!
- Favorite color is yellow
- Dancer (been dancing since she was 3)
- Learning how to play the guitar
- Favorite animals are butterflies and pandas
- Like fruit-flavored candy over chocolate candy
- Likes learning new languages
- From Concord, NC
- Went to school in Macon, GA at Mercer University
Name all 6 of the movie genres in Unit 2?
- Hood classics
- Horror
- Sci-fi/fantasy
- Comedy
- Musicals