Positioning
Colours and Lighting
Artistic Elements And Other Things
Human Portrayals
Miscellaneous
100

The manner in which an image is organised.

What is composition?

100

A romantic, yet angry colour.

What is red?

100

The roughness or smoothness of elements of visual text.

What is texture?

100

Facial expressions, postures and gestures used to show character’s attitudes, moods or personality.

What is body language?

100

The use of an image to represent (one of more) ideas.

What is symbolism?

200

The empty parts of an image.

What is space?

200


What are warm colours?

200

Lines used to show dramatic anxiety, danger or excitement.

What are jagged/sharp lines?

200

When a character is looking at something outside of the image.

What is extra-diegetic gaze?

200

A reference to another text/image.

What is an allusion?

300


What are vectors?

300


What is shadowing?

300

The action of explaining the meaning of something.

What is an interpretation?

300


What is demand gaze?

300


What is salience?

400

When something is deliberately left out of an image.

What is an omission? 

400

A colour or shade.

What is a hue?

400

The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story

What is mood?

400

The distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch.

What is costuming?
400

How the image is framed in reference to the viewer.

What is point of view?

500


What is depth?

500

How pure a colour is.

What is saturation?

500

A style of painting in which the artist's intent is to as closely as possible reflect the natural state of the subject in terms of light, color, shape, and form.

What is realism?

500

The attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.

What is anthropomorphism?

500

A pictorial analogy. It illustrates a comparison between what is in the visual, including its connotations and denotations with another thing and its meanings figuratively

What is a metaphor?

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