AURAL DEVICES
Words that imitate the sound they make.
Onomatopoeia
The name of the most obvious or noticeable image or part of an image.
What is a Salient image?
A speech in a play that the character speaks to himself or herself or to the people watching rather than to the other characters:
What is a soliloquy?
A shot that closes in on one part of an object so that it fills the whole screen (e.g. an eye, a door handle, a word on a page etc.).
What is a close-up?
"I wandered lonley as a cloud"
What is a simile?
The repetition of consonant sounds in the middle of words.
Consonance
Invisible lines in an image that draw our eye to particular focal points.
What are vector lines?
A fatal flaw in a character that ultimately leads to their downfall.
What is harmatia?
A horizontal swivelling movement of the camera, like turning your head from side to side while viewing the horizon.
What is a panning shot?
Daffodils toss their heads in a sprightly dance.
What is personification?
The repetition of vowel sounds in the middle of words.
Assonance
When the subject in an image is looking directly at the responder.
What is demand gaze?
A character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasise opposing traits in another character.
What is a foil?
Where the camera is tilted on the side, so as to make the scene appear unbalanced (often to show the disorientation of a character).
What is a canted or Dutch angle?
You is kind, you is smart, and you is important.
What is anaphora?
The repetition of the S or soft C sound.
Sibilance
What the subject in an image is looking away from the viewer.
What is offer gaze?
A line of verse with five metrical feet, each consisting of one short (or unstressed) syllable followed by one long (or stressed) syllable.
What is iambic Pentametre?
The technique of selecting, editing, and piecing together separate sections of film to form a continuous whole.
What is montage?
"Soft language issued from their spitless lips as they swished in low circles round and round the field"
What is assonance and sibilance.
Am aural device that uses harsh sounds that evoke unpleasant feelings.
Cacophony.
According to the rule of thirds, the top third is...
What is empowered?
Dialogue in which a single line spoken by one character is answered by another character’s line that plays off the language of the first.
What is STICHOMYTHIA?
This French term translates to 'everything on the screen'
What is mise en scene?
"Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country,"
What is Antimetabole?