Visual texts
The feature of a visual text refers to wherever the viewer's eyes are drawn to first. This is always done deliberately and is essential to convey to viewers what part of the image is most important towards the overall meaning of the text.
What is salience?
The word choices – diction, register, voice, connotation and denotation - help determine this
What is tone?
The perspective from which a story is told. The common points of view from which an author can narrate a story are: 1st person - uses the pronouns “I” and “we.” 2nd person - uses the pronoun “you.” 3rd person - uses the pronouns “she,” “he,” “they,” and “it.”
What is Narrative Perspective or Narrative Point of View?
The use of something simple and concrete to represent much more complex ideas or concepts.
What is symbolism
Mr Windon's NRL team
Who is the Tigers?
The feature of a visual text which the audience's eyes will follow a path towards when viewing the image and is often the second most important area for viewing following the salient.
What is vector / vector lines
Directly related to diction as a way of determining how a sentence does and should sound. Some of the basics of [ .... ] include word order, subject-verb agreement, and the use of different sentences to express different ideas.
What is syntax?
The act of creating and describing characters in literature. This includes both descriptions of a character's physical attributes as well as the character's personality. The way that characters act, think, and speak also adds to this.
What is characterisation?
Set in the past, present or future
What is tense?
Ms McEnearney's favourite Yr12 student
Who is Adelaide Hicks?
The presentation of visual elements in an image, especially the placement of the subject in relation to other objects.
What is framing?
Referring to when a writer compares unrelated objects or ideas with figurative language for more than a sentence. This literary device may be used throughout a paragraph, chapter, or even a complete work.
What is extended metaphor?
Internal monologue, speech, dialect, emotive language, tone are all related to this.
What is dialogue?
A type of question put for effect, that requires no answer, and expects none.
What is rhetorical question?
Famous House in Sydney
What is the Sydney Opera House?
An element strongly tied to our emotions. Depending on the context, it can have symbolic, associative, or evocative meanings.
What is colour?
The subject of the poem is described by comparing it to another object or subject, using 'as', 'like', or 'than'.
What is a simile?
Visual, auditory, tactile, olfactory, and gustatory are all forms of this.
What is imagery?
A play on words where a word is used in two senses.
What is a pun?
Damon's middle name
Who is Patrick?
DEMAND- a term used when a figure in the image 'gazes' directly out of the page at the responder. This establishes a connection between subject and viewer.
OFFER- a term used when a figure 'gazes' at another object in the image encouraging us to look at that object, the viewer is a detached onlooker.
What is gaze?
A repeated pattern—an image, sound, word, or symbol that comes back again and again
What is a motif?
A symbolic fictional narrative that conveys a meaning not explicitly set forth in the narrative ... encompasses such forms as fable, parable, and apologue, may have meaning on two or more levels that the reader can understand only through an interpretive process
What is allegory?
Giving human/living qualities to non-human/non-living objects
What is personification?
Ms McEnearney's age
What is 37 years?