Parts of Speech
Film Analysis
Literary Devices 1
Literary Devices 2
Verbal Tenses
100

What is a person, place, thing or idea?

Noun

100

This refers to cutting and organizing the sequence of scenes in a film.

Editting

100

What literary device compares two unlike things without using "like" or "as" in the comparison?

Metaphor

100

What literary device compares two unlike things using "like" or "as" in the comparison?

Simile

100

What is the verbal tense used for actions happening now?

Present Tense (i.e. "I climb")

200

What is a word that describes a noun?

Adjective

200

This is one aspect of sound, and involves noises and audio accompaniments that complement the plot of the film.

Sound effects

200

What is literary device that describes repeating the final (ending) sound of words at the end of lines of poetry?

End Rhyme

200

What is literary device that describes repeating the final (ending) sound of words within a line of poetry?

Internal Rhyme

200

What is the verbal tense used for actions that have already happened and are now ended?

Past Tense, also known as Perfect or Preterite Tenses (i.e. "I climbed")

300

What is an action word?

Verb

300

This is one aspect of sound, which includes all the songs featured in a film.

Soundtrack

300

What is literary device that describes repeating the exact same phrase, sentence or stanza for emphasis?

Repetition

300

What is literary device that describes when the formation of a word derives from a sound associated with what is named?

Onomatopoeia

300

What is the verbal tense used for actions that will happen but have not already occurred?

Future Tense (i.e. "I will climb")

400

What is a word that describes an adjective, verb or itself?

Adverb

400

This refers to any visual "special" effects produced by the camera itself (and computer graphics) in the production of a film.

Cinematography.

400

What is literary device that gives human characteristic to non-human things?

Personification

400

What is literary device that references something or someone extratextual (i.e. outside the text), often from mythology or another work of literature?

Allusion

400

What is the verbal tense used for actions that started in the past, but may be ongoing?

Imperfect Tense (i.e. "I was climbing")

500

What (often small) word stands in for the noun that is its antecedent, and must match in number, case and gender?

Pronoun

500

This French term refers to the visual appeal and organization of images in the film (i.e. thinking of frames from the film as images).

Mise-en-scene

500

What is literary device that describes repeating the frontal consonant sound of words?

Alliteration

500

What is literary device that describes repeating the frontal vowel sound of words?

Assonance

500

What is the verbal tense used for actions that in future will have already happened?

Future Perfect Tense (i.e. "I will have climbed")