Personification, metaphors and similies are all examples of this type of language that is intended to create a picture in the minds of the reader.
What is figurative language?
100
When a person asks another person questions. Sometimes the person asking the questions is included in the picture, sometimes not.
What is interview?
100
The people that are imagined to be the readers of the text. The text is designed to appeal to this group of readers.
What is the target audience?
100
The storyline. Includes the orientation, development, climax and resolution.
What is plot?
100
The things that happen to you in your life that shape you thoughts, opinions and beliefs.
What are experiences?
200
When a point is made memorable by saying it more than one time.
What is repetition?
200
Recorded dialogue, usually narration, that comes from an unseen, off-screen voice.
What is voice over?
200
A text which is written by someone about another person's life.
What is a biography?
200
The location in which a story takes place. Includes place, time, social environment and psychological environment.
What is setting?
200
The place, time, and situation in which a text is created.
What is the context of production?
300
Words that sound similar and that are pleasant to the ear. They appeal because the listener can predict part of the speech.
What is rhyming?
300
Film that is taken from previously established recordings or pictures. This is not filmed for the documentary, but is actual material that allows the director to give visual historical meaning to the film.
What is file footage?
300
What the author/director chooses to include and leave out of a text. This is deliberate and can help to acheive the purpose.
What is selection of detail?
300
The process of establishing characters in the book through descriptions of them, their speech, reactions to them, their actions and their thoughs.
What is characterisation.
300
The personal situation that the author was in when he/she wrote or created the text. This is shaped by his/her background, experiences, values and life circumstances.
What is the author's context?
400
Another word for sentence structure. Authors use short and long sentences in order to have a variety of this.
What is syntax?
400
A technique in film editing in which a series of short shots is edited into a sequence to condense space, time, and information
What is montage?
400
A film or TV program presenting some of 'the facts' about a person or event
What is a documentary?
400
The part of the story where all of the problems come to a peak. The part that the whole story has been building up to.
What is the climax?
400
The situation that the reader is in when they read a text. This is shaped by thier individual thoughts, feelings, values, experiences and life situation.
What is reader's context?
500
Where the vowel sound in a series of words. An example of this is "Hi, hi, up in the bright sky." (NOT RHYMING!)
What is a assonance?
500
Words that appear on the screen to give more information or details about what is appearing on the screen.
What is a caption?
500
The reason that something is written. What is it trying to acheive?
What is purpose?
500
The persective from which a story is told. This is determined by who is narrating the story and whether they are telling the story as one of the characters or someone uninvolved in the story.
What is point of view?
500
The three types of context are called these.
What is reader's context, author's context and context of production?