Scary Tells
This is the unique combination of ideas, values, feelings, and beliefs that influence the way the writer looks at a topic.
Author's Viewpoint
The messages about life or human nature that writers share with readers.
Theme
It is the method of narration used in a short story, novel, narrative poem, or work of nonfiction.
Point of View
Writing that examines, analyzes, and interprets a piece of literature or a general aspect of literature.
Literary Criticism
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Writers and directors create suspense and tell the story using different....
Techniques
This is an argument made to oppose an alternative view.
Counter Argument
When a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.
Foreshadowing
The narrator, or the voice that tells the story, is an outside observer.
Third-Person Point of View
In literary criticism it is to inform or to persuade other readers to view a text in a certain way.
Author's Purpose
This can create moods that are gloomy, mysterious, or scary.
Lighting
Language used imaginatively in ways that go beyond literal definitions.
Figurative Language
When the same message can be found in the literature of different cultures and in different time periods
Universal Theme
The narrator is a character in the story and uses the pronouns I and me.
First-Person Point of View
The critic explains the characteristics of a type of writing using specific examples as evidence.
Define The Genre
Directors may use different camera angle shots (3 reasons)
to convey ideas
to track characters’ emotions
to show a situation from a character’s viewpoint
This is a manner of writing.
Element of Style
“What lesson does the main character learn that applies to real people’s lives?”
One way to determine a story’s theme is to ask
This is a narrator whose assessment of events cannot be trusted for some reason
Unreliable Narrator
The critic analyzes the organization of a piece of literature.
The Structure
These are glass or plastic disks that are inserted in front of a camera lens. These can change the way that images appear, making them clearer, brighter, darker, or fuzzier
Camera Filters
Refers to the way words are put together to form phrases and sentences.
The length of a writer’s sentences and the use of formal or informal grammar all contribute to style.
Syntax
Dialogue
Descriptions of events
Imagery
Clues about future events
This is the sense of growing tension, fear, and excitement felt by the reader.
Suspense
The critic explains and evaluates the effectiveness of literary techniques, such as using an unreliable narrator, recurring imagery, or flashbacks.
Author’s Technique
This can signal dramatic events or tense moments. It sometimes foreshadows, or hints at, what is going to happen.
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