Literary 1
"The tribe has spoken"
High modality language
"Brother Eugh"
Onomatopoeia
"What the dog doin?"
Rhetorical question
What is the main visual technique in this image?
Contrast
Never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you
Anaphora
"I used to be an adventurer like you until I took an arrow to the knee"
- Coordinating Conjunction
- Past tense
Bonus points for every technique you can find
- Contrast/juxtaposition
- Asyndeton
- Visual imagery
- Caesura
Bonus points for every technique you can find
- High modality language
- Coordinating Conjunction
- Auditory Imagery
What visual techniques make the girl stand out?
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- Salience
- Positioning & Scale (Close up)
- Gaze
- Contrast
“When I was a child, I spoke as a child, understood as a child and thought as a child; when I became a man, I put away childish things.”
- Epistrophe
- Caesura
"Love is blind but marriage is a real eye-opener"
- Coordinating Conjunction
- High modality language
- Personification
"Would I rather be feared or loved? Easy. Both. I want people to be afraid of how much they love me.”
- Hypophora
- Contrast/juxtaposition
- Truncated Sentences
They were a single grain of rice left in the bowels of the rice cooker. Abandoned. Exiled. Doomed.
- Metaphor
- Visual imagery
- Truncated sentences
- Tricolon
Bonus points for every technique you find
- Contrast/juxtaposition
- Colour
- Vectors
"Cool, cool, cool, cool, cool. No doubt, no doubt, No doubt."
- Asyndeton
- Epizeuxis
"Injured. Beyond repair. I know nothing besides this"
Truncated sentences & high modality language
"Although coarse to the touch, the grooves on her face were a testament to her wisdom; an ancient oak tree that had persisted through the cackling inferno of summer and the howling wind of winter"
- Tactile/Visual Imagery
- Symbolism
- Caesura
- Seasonal imagery
- Contrast/Juxtaposition
- Auditory imagery
"Whilst the streams of my veins resemble the streams of the Mekong, it is the heart born out of red dirt which my soul calls its abode. It sympathises with the cry of the trumpet and grieves at the scent of the poppy."
- Visual imagery
- Metaphor
- Auditory imagery
- Olfactory imagery
Bonus points for any techniques you find
- Zooming close up shot
- Contrast in colour/style
- Non-diegetic sound
- Gaze
- Noot Noot???
"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two equals four"
Diacope (Repetition of a word that is separated by a small number of other words)
"What is better - to be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?"
- Caesura
- Coordinating conjunction,
- Contrast/juxtaposition
- Rhetorical question
Bonus points for every literary/stylistic technique you can find
- Second person language
- First person language
- Personal anecdote
- Coordinating conjunction
- Polysyndeton
- High modality language
Bonus points for every technique you find
- Anaphora (repetition at start of sentence/clause)
- Contrast/Juxtaposition
- Coordinating conjunction
- Rhetorical question
- High modality language
- Second person language
- Personal anecdote
- Asyndeton
Bonus points for every technique you can find
- Shifting close up shots (between the two)
- Over the shoulder shot
- Non-diegetic sound
- High modality language
- Extreme long shot
- Low angle shot tracking shot
“When there is talk of hatred, let us stand up and talk against it. When there is talk of violence, let us stand up and talk against it.”
- Symploce (Combo of anaphora and epistrophe)