Literary Terms
Cinematic Techniques
100
A distinctive emotional quality or character
What is mood?
100
A camera shot taken at a very short distance from the subject, to permit a close and detailed view of an object or action.
What is close up?
200
A figure of speech in which two unlike things are explicitly compared, as in “she is like a rose.”
What is simile?
200
To bring a subject, scene, etc., into closeup or cause it to recede into a long shot using a zoom lens and while maintaining focus.
What is zoom?
300
The formation of mental images, figures, or likenesses of things, or of such images collectively.
What is imagery?
300
An act or instance of crosscutting
What is cross cut?
400
Language that contains or uses figures of speech, especially metaphors
What is figurative language?
400
A camera shot, as a close-up, of two persons.
What is two shot?
500
An extravagant statement or figure of speech not intended to be taken literally, as “to wait an eternity.”
What is hyperbole?
500
Recurrent and abnormally vivid recollection of a traumatic experience, as a battle, sometimes accompanied by hallucinations.
What is flashback?
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