Visual Techniques
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Name a visual technique beginning with the letter S

Teacher to decide

salience, symbolism

100

Define personification

Giving distinctly human-like qualities to non-human things

100

Explain the difference between a monologue and a duologue

A monologue is one person speaking for a significant amount of time whereas a duologue is two people

100

Name one text we studied from each term this year

Romeo and Juliet, A monster Calls, (one protest text), (One of the articles/discursive texts)

100

What is the date of Anzac Day each year?

25th April 

200

Define 'vector line'

Natural lines in the image which draw the viewer's eye to something else in the image. 

200

Provide an example of assonance

Teacher to determine

200

How can you identify a stage direction (what features are there to tell you)?

Square brackets, present tense, italics

200

At what time did the Monster arrive in A Monster Calls

12:07

200

What is the meaning of 
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

Fear of long words

300

What is the film shot which describes when a camera is looking up at the subject of the image

Low-angle shot

300

What technique is this: "The brown, murky waters rippled below the bridge. Green leaves floated along the surface."

Visual imagery

300

Define 'aside'

When a character turns and speaks to the audience without the other characters hearing

300

What type of poem is the prologue to Romeo and Juliet?

Sonnet

300

Who won the 2022 Soccer World Cup?

Argentina

400

What features contribute to an element of an image having salience? (Name at least 3)

Size, colour, positioning, contrast

400

What technique describes the continuation of a sentence without a pause beyond the end of a line, couplet, or stanza

Enjambment

400

What is the technique when the audience is aware of something that the characters do not know?

Dramatic irony

400

Finish the quote from Romeo and Juliet: "what is in a name?....

That which we call a rose by any other name would smell just as sweet."

400

I asked AI for a list of the best names in the world. Only one was in our class. Who was it?

Amelia

500

Name 5 visual techniques that have not yet been said this game

Teacher to decide

500

Define prosopopoeia 

A figure of speech in which an abstract thing (or imagine, absent or dead person) is personified or represented as speaking.

500

Define soliloquy

When one character is speaking their thoughts on stage, with no awareness of the audience and without other characters hearing

500

Finish the quote: "A free bird leaps..."

on the back of the wind  

and floats downstream  

till the current ends"

500

As a team, you have 1min to choreograph and perform a dance to a section of "Best Song Ever" by One Direction 

TBD the class and teacher (full points?)

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