Lit techniques I
Word choice
Diction
Symbol that represents the website brand
Logo
These enclose dialogue and come from a specific speaker’s mouth; they vary in size, shape, and layout and can alternate to depict a conversation.
Speech bubble
The area behind the main subject, providing context or additional meaning.
Background
A gay, a woman and a chinese walk out of a bar. Then they each walk into a seperate bar. What is the next thing the paid for?
Hospital bills
A writer mentioning an important event or person in an essay to lend importance or credibility to his/her argument. “According to…”
Appeal to Authority
The repetition of the first sound in consecutive words, an effect which draws attention to the words in question.
Alliteration
visual content carefully chosen to elicit the desired response from the audience with respect to purpose
Images/Icons
How a person looks
An image or object that represents a larger and more abstract idea
Symbolism
Sensory details in a work; the use of figurative language to evoke a feeling, call to mind an idea, or describe an object.
Imagery
An idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning
Connotation
Lines and squiggles that emanate (originate) from a cartoon character or object to indicate movement or any of a variety of states of being.
Emanata
The arrangement of elements within a photograph, creating a sense of balance and visual appeal.
Telling the facts for one side only.
Card stacking
The technique of arranging words, phrases, clauses, or larger structures by placing them side by side and making them similar in form. Also referred to as parallel construction or parallel structure, this term comes from Greek roots meaning “beside one another.”
Parallelism
Refers to the omission of a conjunction such as “and” or “as” from a series of related clauses. Usually used to accelerate a passage and emphasize the significance of the relation between these clauses.
Asyndeton
The amount of light captured when taking a photograph, affecting its brightness and clarity.
Exposure
A compositional rule that suggests dividing the image into nine equal parts, placing the subject along these lines or at their intersections for a balanced look.
Rule of thirds
Figure of reasoning in which one or more questions is/are asked and then answered, often at length, by one and the same speaker; raising and responding to one’s own question(s). A common usage is to ask the question at the beginning of a paragraph and then use the paragraph to answer it.
Hyperphora
A figure of speech in which several conjunctions are used to join connected clauses in places where they are not contextually necessary. For example, consider the following sentence: “The dinner was so good; I ate the chicken, and the salad, and the turkey, and the wild rice, and the bread, and the mashed potatoes, and the cranberry sauce.”
Polysyndeton
A type of metaphor in which the part stands for the whole, the whole for a part, the genus for the species, the species for the genus, the material for the thing made, or in short, any portion , section, or main quality for the whole or the thing itself (or vice versa). Ex. Farmer Joe has two hundred heads of cattle [whole cattle], and three hired hands [whole people].
Synecdoche
The placement of contrasting elements close to each other to highlight their differences or create interest.
Juxtaposition
A shot where the camera is tilted, often used to create a sense of disorientation or tension.
Dutch angle
How can the number four be half of five?
IV, the Roman numeral for four, which is “half” (two letters) of the word five.