Language Techniques
Name the technique:
"His words hit like a slap, sharp and unexpected."
What is a simile?
Name the word from the definition:
"unwilling or hesitant to do something."
What is reluctant?
Name the shot from the description:
"A camera angle looking down on a subject, making them appear smaller, weaker, or less powerful."
What is a high angle?
Name the text type from the description:
"A brief fictional text that focuses on a small number of characters and usually centers on a single event or moment, often ending with a clear resolution or twist. "
What is a Short Story?
Name the animal:
"This animal has three hearts and blue blood"
What is an Octopus?
Name the technique:
"The exam was a battlefield, and every question felt like an ambush."
What is a metaphor?
Name the word from the definition:
"sudden and unexpected; brief in manner or speech."
What is abrupt?
Name the shot from the description:
"A shot that tightly frames a subject, often a face or object."
What is a close up?
Name the text type from the description:
"A long fictional narrative that explores multiple events, character arcs, and themes over an extended period of time."
What is a novel?
Name the fruit:
"This popular berry, is not actually a berry at all"
What is a strawberry?
Name the technique:
"The clock mocked me with every loud tick."
What is personification?
Name the word from the definition:
"open to more than one interpretation; unclear in meaning."
What is ambiguous?
Name the shot from the description:
"A shot where the camera is deliberately tilted to one side."
What is a dutch tilt / canted angle?
Name the text type from the description:
"A fictional prose text that is longer than a short story but shorter than a novel, allowing for more developed characters and themes while remaining tightly focused on one main story-line."
What is a Novella?
Name the playwright:
"This seminal playwright invented over 1700 English words"
Who is Shakespeare?
Name the technique:
"That homework took forever to finish."
What is hyperbole?
Name the word from the definition:
"believing that people are motivated mainly by self-interest rather than sincerity."
What is cynical?
Name the shot from the description:
"A shot where the camera physically moves to follow a subject or action."
What is a tracking shot?
Name the text type from the description:
"A narrative that is released in parts over time, with each installment continuing the same story-line and characters, often ending with tension or unanswered questions to encourage the audience to keep reading."
What is Serial Fiction?
Name the food:
"This is the only food that can never go bad"What is honey?
Name the technique:
"The room was filled with a deafening silence."
What is an oxymoron?
Name the word from the definition:
"too great or extreme to be expressed in words."
What is ineffable?
Name the shot from the description:
"Everything placed within the frame, including lighting, costume, props, setting, and actor positioning."
What is Mise-en-Scène?
Name the text type from the description:
"A narrative in which characters, events, and settings symbolically represent broader ideas, moral concepts, or political beliefs, often operating on both a literal and metaphorical level."
What is an Allegory?
Name the dot:
"This is the name of the dot that resides above an i or a j"
What is a tittle?