WORD POWER
A word that describes a person or place or thing.
What is a noun?
“Her thoughts fluttered like moths against a closed window.”
What is a simile?
Words in a bubble in a comic showing what a character says.
What are speech bubbles?
Re-using a word or phrase for emphasis
What is repetition?
Words that describe how something is done belong to which word class?
What is adverb?
A word that expresses an action.
What is a verb?
“The city was a furnace, melting patience into anger.”
What is a metaphor?
Small visual symbols in comics
What are emanata?
Language that leaves no possibility for doubt
What is absolute language?
The feeling or atmosphere that a piece of writing creates for the reader
What is mood?
A word that modifies a verb, adjective
What is an adverb?
“The old house sighed as the storm pressed against its walls.”
What is personification?
The way the camera “sees” a scene
What are shot types?
A group of words that share a connected meaning
What is a semantic field?
A phrase that is commonly used and easily understood, but sometimes overused
What is cliche?
A word that describes a noun
What is an adjective?
“I’ve told you a thousand times — don’t touch my sketchbook!”
What is a hyperbole?
The empty or “quiet” space around objects/images, which draws attention to them.
What is negative space?
Descriptive language that appeals to senses
What is imagery?
When something happens or is said that is the opposite of what you would normally expect.
What is irony?
A word added to make something stronger
What is an intensifier?
“Silver smoke spiraled softly into the sky.”
What is alliteration?
When the artist shows what your eyes should look at first or what is most important in the scene.
What is graphic weight?
Placing two contrasting ideas close together for effect
What is juxtaposition?
Write one five-word alliterative phrase describing a storm.
What is Wicked wind whipped wildly west