Literary Flashcards
(20 cards)
Salience (Visual)
Is the part of the image that grabs your attention first.
Perspective (Visual)
What perspective are we entering into the image as a viewer?
Scale (Visual)
How big something is in comparison to something else.
Chiaroscuro (Visual)
Strong contrasts between light-and-dark.
Background
Behind the image.
Foreground
Element of the photo closest to you.
Metonym (Visual)
Metonymy is a figure of speech that involves using a word or phrase to represent something else that is closely associated with it
eg. phones and technology
Synecdoche
Synecdoche is when we use a part to represent the whole or the whole to represent a part.
Semantics
Words or sentences that have meanings behind them.
Double entendre
Has two meanings behind it, the other one being humorous
Imperative
Command
exclamatory sentence
A sentence that ends with an excalamation mark
Ideology
Belief.
Idioms
Expression eg. sweating buckets.
Linguistic Convergence
where a speaker adapts their speech to be more similar to the listener
Linguistic Divergence
where a speaker adapts their speech to be more different to the listener
Super latives
Ending in “-st”
declarative sentence
A sentence that makes a statement.
Omission
Something has been left out, but why?
Juxta position
In comparison to
