Visual Elements
Composition
Comp. Cont.
Lit Device
Lit Device Cont.
100

Areas of brightness and shadow. Blank can be used to suggest time of day. Blank may be artificial or natural, harsh or soft, reflected or direct.

Light

100

Significant visual differences between light and dark, varying textures, sizes, and so on.

Contrast

100

This is the actual physical surrounding or scenery whether real or artificially constructed.

Setting

100

Wuthering Heights utilizes a somewhat complicated story Structure. It revolves around Lockwood, the new tenant at Thrushcross Grange, gradually learning the history of his landlord Heathcliff at neighboring Wuthering Heights and Heathcliff's connection with the Lintons of the Grange. Nelly narrates most of the story.

Framed Narrative 

100

My love for Linton is like the foliage in the woods. Time will change it, I'm well aware, as winter changes the trees—my love for Heathcliff resembles the eternal rocks beneath—a source of little visible delight, but necessary.

Simile 

200

Objects, shapes, lines etc. that create a pattern.

Repetition 

200

This refers to the object(s) that seem most prominently or clearly focused in a photograph

Central Focus

200

This is the part of an image that seems to be towards the back.

Background

200

When Lockwood visits Wuthering Heights for the first time, the novel uses melancholy, Gothic [Blank] to indicate that the neighboring house is a forlorn, isolated, tempestuous place.

Imagery

200

"...the storm, which had been growing through the night, now seemed to invade the room,"

Personification 

300

This is about the quality of ‘feel’ in the photograph; if you could touch an image, what would it feel like?

Texture

300

This refers to the distribution of visual elements. Symmetrical blank distributes visual elements evenly in an image. Asymmetrical blank distributes visual elements unevenly.

Balance 

300

The place or position from which the photographer takes a photograph.

Vantage Point

300

"I have just returned from a visit to my landlord—the solitary neighbour that I shall be troubled with. This is certainly a beautiful country! In all England, I do not believe that I could have fixed on a situation so completely removed from the stir of society. A perfect misanthropist’s Heaven—and Mr Heathcliff and I are such a suitable pair to divide the desolation between us. A capital fellow!"

Irony

300

"He’s a bird of bad omen... an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone."

Metaphor 

400

This is an aspect of an image's composition. Photographs can suggest depth, or they may appear shallow (and you might consider how this is established; sometimes this is created by special illusion). In addition blank can be both positive (areas that attract most attention) and negative (the emptier areas).

Space

400

This is the vantage point from where a photograph was taken. It is often used when discussing images taken from an unusual or exaggerated vantage point

Angle

400

This is the arrangement or structuring of formal elements that make up an image.

Composition

400

Brontë uses multiple, overlapping narrators—chiefly Nelly and Lockwood—to convey different various attitudes about her characters, creating a [Blank] that ranges from detached fascination (Lockwood) to maternal sympathy (Nelly).

Tone

400

Windows are everywhere. They represent the thin, fragile barrier between the social world and the spiritual/natural world.

Motif 

500

This is a quality of light. In considering an image, you might ask if it suggests a range of tones from light to dark. Where are the lightest and darkest blank?

Value

500

What the photographer has placed within the boundaries of the photograph.

Framing

500

The outline of an object or shape.

Contour

500

"...she was all bewildered; she sighed, moaned, knew nobody."

Asyndeton 

500

"If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger..."

Polysyndeton 

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