Theatrical
The part of the stage and theatre which is out of sight of the audience.
What is Backstage/Offstage?
The constant repetition of the same initial consonant sound.
What is an Alliteration?
A play on words.
What is a Pun?
The magnifying of a shot, showing the details within the imagery.
What is a Close-Up?
The camera turns up or down on a vertical axis.
What is Tilt?
The middle portion of the stage.
What is Center Stage?
The basic idea in which a literary selection is based on.
What is Theme?
A figure of speech in which something inanimate is given human traits.
What is Personification?
The type shot showing what the characters eyes are seeing.
What is a POV Shot?
The part of the stage that is closest to the audience.
What is Downstage?
The left and right sides of the stage.
What is Stage Left and Stage Right?
A comparison between two different things indicated by a term such as like or as.
What is a Simile?
What is the comparison of things that are different.
What is Contrast?
One still image on a strip of film?
What is a Frame?
Descriptive expressions such as figures of speech, that appeal to ones senses.
What is Imagery?
The complete absence of stage light.
What is a Blackout?
What is an Oxymoron?
A likeness shown between two things which are otherwise unalike.
What is an Analogy?
A series of related scenes that are cut back to back. For example a car chase could be many different scenes cut together.
What is a Sequence?
The voice of a narrator over the picture.
What is a Voice Over?
The beam of light focuses on a small area.
What is a Spotlight?
1. The exact, literary, dictionary meaning of a word.
2. The exact, literary, dictionary meaning of a word plus suggested meanings that arise from personal experience.
(Must get both right for points)
1. What is a Denotation?
2. What is Connotation?
The overlapping or mixing of opposite or different situations, characters, settings, moods, or points of view.
What is a Juxtaposition?
Sound that has a direct source in the story. (spoken words, natural sounds...)
What is Diegetic Sound?
An exaggeration of fact used either for a serious or comic effect on the audience.
What is a Hyperbole?