Advertising
Miscellaneous
Visual advertising
Magazines/newspapers
Literary Terms
100

Appealing to our sense of logic.

What is logos? 

100

A tone that demands the audience to do something.  

What is imperative language/tone?

100

The deliberate pose used in a photograph or illustration to present/suggest an idea. Typically, this is done in conjunction with the verbal features.

What is body language?

100

Is an overstatement that exaggerates a particular condition for emphasis

What is hyperbole?

100

an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or primary meaning.

What is connotation?

200

The use of language that includes the audience, such as with a direct address to the audience. This is typically done with second person perspective ("you") or inclusive personal pronouns like "us" or "we".

Inclusive language

200

A tone that communicates certainty

What is high modality language/tone?

200

The center of interest on a page or set of facing pages, created by using color, contrast and proportion.

What is focal point? 

200

The component of the image showing the most salient/important subject.

What is dominant image?

200

Placement of two things closely together to emphasize comparisons or contrasts

What is juxtaposition?

300

A persuasion technique which suggests you should do something because everyone else is doing it.

What is bandwagon effect

300

A persuasion technique which suggests you should do something because everyone else is doing it.

What is bandwagon effect?

300

The path a viewer has when viewing an image or another visual text, such as from a large piece of font and then a small body of text.

What is visual path?

300

A title or brief explanation accompanying an illustration, cartoon, or poster.

What is caption?

300

the repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses

What is anaphora?

400

Using situations or lifestyles that viewers would aspire to have to make viewers want to buy into that lifestyle.

What is aspirational appeal? 

400

A recurring object, concept, or structure in a work literature.

Motif

400

The term given to a complete work of art or visual text and, more specifically, to the way in which all its elements work together to produce an overall effect. 

What is composition?

400

A smaller, secondary headline that usually elaborates on the main headline above it.

What is sub-heading (or sub-headline)?

400

A reference to another work of literature, person, or event

Allusion

500

the use of humor, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule to expose and criticize people's stupidity or weaknesses, particularly in the context of contemporary politics and other topical issues.

What is satire? 

500

The deliberate placement of contrasting words, phrases or ideas together to highlight their differences and create a more powerful effect.

Juxtaposition

500

When a person or subject in the visual text appears to be looking directly at the audience. 

What is direct gaze? 

500

the style, arrangement, and appearance of text

What is typography?

500

Applying animal characteristics to humans or gods

What is zoomorphism?