Film
Language
LTC
Pre-Law
Writing
100
The element of cinema encompasses all that the viewer sees on the screen.
What is mise-en-scene?
100
"-able" in "Unbelievable."
What is a suffix?
100
A collection of works that is considered the most important of a particular time period or place.
What is a canon?
100
English pre-law majors must complete courses in this discipline as well as business, criminology, history, philosophy, and political science.
What is economics?
100
Recurring elements that have symbolic significance in a narrative.
What are motifs?
200
This type of film stock was popular from the late 1940s through the 1960s and is visible in films such as Meet Me in St. Louis.
What is Technicolor?
200
The least-used letter in the English alphabet.
What is "Q"?
200
Academic who helped to create the field of queer studies and whose work reflects particular interest in queer performativity.
Who is Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick?
200
Aristotle’s systematization of rhetoric noted three persuasive appeals: ethos, pathos and this, meaning "reason."
What is logos?
200
Type of poetry that does not use verse but preserves poetic qualities such as imagery.
What is prose poetry?
300
This duo developed the first short films viewed by audiences in 1895.
Who are August and Louis Lumière?
300
Linguist who developed the concept of "universal grammar."
Who is Noam Chomsky?
300
Philosophy which defines visual value as the primary goal in understanding literature.
What is aestheticism?
300
Inspirational German-language novelist who is responsible for the novella “The Metamorphosis.”
Who is Franz Kafka?
300
Genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives.
What is literary nonfiction?
400
Editing technique used to establish action occurring at the same time in two different locations.
What is cross-cutting?
400
Theorist who suggests that words are merely “signifiers” for objects, or the “signified.”
Who is Ferdinand de Saussure?
400
School of literary criticism which questions fundamental conceptual distinctions or “oppositions.”
What is deconstruction?
400
Form of government in which a single entity rules with absolute power.
What is despotism?
400
Type of writing whose purpose is to inform, explain, describe or define the author’s subject to readers.
What is technical writing?
500
Sounds that do not have a source within the film.
What is non-diegetic sound?
500
Grammar which refers to the structure of a language as it is actually used by speakers and writers, not how certain people think it should be used.
What is descriptive grammar?
500
Work using this mid-twentieth century theory often contains an implicit moral dimension.
What is New Criticism?
500
The theory and philosophy of law.
What is jurisprudence?
500
Type of writing whose purpose is to inform, explain, describe or define the author’s subject to the readers.
What is expository writing?
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