The manner in which an image is organised.
What is composition?
A romantic, yet angry colour.
What is red?
The roughness or smoothness of elements of visual text.
What is texture?
Facial expressions, postures and gestures used to show character’s attitudes, moods or personality.
What is body language?
The use of an image to represent (one of more) ideas.
What is symbolism?
The empty parts of an image.
What is space?
What are warm colours?
Lines used to show dramatic anxiety, danger or excitement.
What are jagged/sharp lines?
When a character is looking at something outside of the image.
What is extra-diegetic gaze?
A reference to another text/image.
What is an allusion?
What are vectors?
What is shadowing?
The action of explaining the meaning of something.
What is an interpretation?
What is demand gaze?
What is salience?
When something is deliberately left out of an image.
What is an omission?
A colour or shade.
What is a hue?
The emotional response that the writer wishes to evoke in the reader through a story
What is mood?
The distinctive style of dress or cosmetic of an individual or group that reflects class, gender, profession, ethnicity, nationality, activity or epoch.
How the image is framed in reference to the viewer.
What is point of view?
What is depth?
How pure a colour is.
What is saturation?
A style of painting in which the artist's intent is to as closely as possible reflect the natural state of the subject in terms of light, color, shape, and form.
What is realism?
The attribution of human characteristics or behaviour to a god, animal, or object.
What is anthropomorphism?
A pictorial analogy. It illustrates a comparison between what is in the visual, including its connotations and denotations with another thing and its meanings figuratively
What is a metaphor?