Literary Devices
When a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of multiple sentences throughout a piece of writing.
What is Anaphora?
The primary wide shot of a scene used to inform the audience of the location or situation.
What is an establishing shot?
How did Rosaura react when she received the reward from Señora Ines?
What is confused?
Tim Burton’s style is clearly influenced by his fascination with these types of works.
What are fairy tales
and children’s stories?
When an object, idea, character, action, etc., is compared to another thing using the words "as" or "like."
What is simile?
An interruption in a narrative that depicts events that have already occurred.
What is a Flashback?
When the camera points down on the subject from above. It is used to make the subject or object seem vulnerable, powerless, or weak.
What is a high shot?
The type of conflict in The Cask of Amontillado?
What is man vs. man
Burton worked for many years at this Studio, famous for its animated films.
What is Walt Disney?
the means of communication, such as television and newspapers, that reach great numbers of people.
What is mass media?
when an author indirectly hints at—through things such as dialogue, description, or characters' actions—what's to come later on in the story.
What is foreshadowing?
An instantaneous editing transition.
What is a cut?
At the party, Rosaura managed to win this contest.
What is a sack race?
Burton grew up loving this children's book author.
Who is Dr. Seuss?
The comparing and contrasting of two or more different ideas.
What is juxtaposition?
a statement that appears illogical or self-contradictory but might actually be true or plausible.
What is paradox?
Any sound in a film that doesn’t originate from the world of the film.
What is non-diegetic?
In The Poison Tree, The apple serves as a symbol of this.
What is revenge or retribution?
Like fairy tales, Burton’s stories encourage this way of "getting away from it all."
What is escapism?
A storyteller who has a bias, madness, or some reason for not being objective,
What is an unreliable narrator?
When a nonhuman figure or other abstract concept or element is described as having human-like qualities or characteristics.
What is personification?
A type of lighting style used in photography, film, and television that accentuates shadows, high contrast, and dark tones.
What is low key?
This is the climax of The Cask of Amontillado?
What is Fortunato getting chained to the wall?
Tim Burton was influenced by, but never met, the author of such books as Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach.
Who is Roald Dahl?
Clarisse’s death can be considered this literary device.
What is irony?