Literary devices
This device compares two things using the words "like" or "as."
What is a simile?
Using words like "we," "our," and "us" to create a sense of unity with the audience.
What is inclusive language?
This describes the position from which the camera views the subject, such as to make someone look small and weak.
What is a camera angle?
A sentence with just one independent clause and no dependent clauses.
What is a simple sentence?
Strong convictions or accepted truths held by individuals or groups, often linked to religion, politics, or identity.
What are beliefs?
A word that imitates the sound it represents, like "buzz" or "clang."
What is onomatopoeia?
Using words that stir strong emotional reactions, like "heartbreaking" or "outrageous."
What is emotive language?
This feature refers to the emotions or feelings suggested by the colors used in an image.
What is colour symbolism?
A sentence that includes one independent clause and at least one dependent clause.
What is a complex sentence?
The external expression of someone's values and beliefs.
What are attitudes?
This device gives human qualities to non-human things or objects.
What is personification?
This appeal uses logic, facts, and reasoning to convince an audience.
What is logos?
This describes how much of a subject or scene is shown in the frame, such as a close-up or long shot.
What is shot size?
These are used to organise information visually, making it easier to compare data and spot patterns quickly.
What are graphs and tables?
Important principles or standards that people or societies believe are worth upholding, like honesty or loyalty.
What are values?
An extreme exaggeration used for emphasis, like "I've told you a million times."
What is hyperbole?
This appeal builds trust and credibility, convincing the audience the speaker is trustworthy or an expert.
What is ethos?
The placement of elements in an image to draw the viewer’s eye and create meaning.
What is composition?
These are used to list information clearly and quickly, helping the reader scan and understand key points.
What are bullet points?
Assumptions made about a group of people based on an attribute including (but not limited to) gender or nationality.
What are cultural assumptions?
This device repeats the same beginning consonant sound in a series of words, like "Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
What is alliteration?
This appeal to emotion tries to make the audience feel something, like sadness, anger, or happiness.
What is pathos?
This feature is about what stands out the most in an image and grabs the viewer’s attention first.
What is salience?
Text has an invisible line/s down the left, right, centre, or both left and right to create different effects like formality, readability, or visual balance.
What is text justification?
True or false (and why): a person's values and beliefs are easily changed using persuasive devices such as logic.
False. A person's values and beliefs are shaped from birth through their family and upbringing, culture and society, religion, education and personal experiences.