Terms

Question 1

A story or visual image with a second distinct meaning partially hidden behind its literal or visible meaning

Answer 1

Allegory

Question 2

An indirect reference to an event, person, place or artistic work. The relevance isn’t explained by the author but relies on the audience’s familiarity with what is mentioned

Answer 2

Allusion

Question 3

Openess to different interpretations

Answer 3

Ambiguity

Question 4

A central figure in a work that repels the audience with morals or actions but isn’t a villain. May do heroic deeds

Answer 4

Anti-Hero

Question 5

A term from jungian psychology. Essentially a sterotype around every culture. (I.e. The trickster or flawed hero like Hercules)

Answer 5

Archetype

Question 6

Cruel humor

Answer 6

Black comedy

Question 7

Cameras can remain stationary and move side to side,up and down, move along a vehicle, backwards or forward, etc

Answer 7

Camera movement

Question 8

A body of works considered authentic

Answer 8

Canon

Question 9

A process in which a character heals though often a painful process

Answer 9

Catharsis

Question 10

The emotional implications and associations that words may carry as distinguished from their denotative meanings

Answer 10

Connotation

Question 11

The basic dictionary meaning of a word, as opposed to it’s connotative meaning

Answer 11

Denotation

Question 12

The end game of a work of fiction, a French word

Answer 12

Denouement

Question 13

The quality of a narrative or character that leads only to a single conclusion. For ex: a character doomed to fail

Answer 13

Determinism/deterministic

Question 14

The way of closing a story with an off-stage character who delivers the denouement. Ex. God walking on stage saying the end of a tale

Answer 14

Deus ex machina

Question 15

Literary word choice

Answer 15

Diction

Question 16

A work “designed to impart information, advice, or some doctrine of mortality or philosophy.”

Answer 16

Didactic

Question 17

A world so oppressive that it might be a nightmare for someone from our society

Answer 17

Dystopia

Question 18

A paradise of some sort- opposite of dystopia

Answer 18

Utopia

Question 19

A character trait that leads to tragedy. Both in characters who are admirable and awful villains. Ex. Eve’s desire for knowledge

Answer 19

Fatal flaw

Question 20

An expression that departs from the accepted literal sense or from the normal order if words.

Answer 20

Figure of speech

Question 21

As a critical term, it can refer to a genre or an established pattern of poetic devices. The structure of a design of any given work

Answer 21

Form

Question 22

The French word for “type, species, or class of composition”

Answer 22

Genre

Question 23

A nod of the head

Answer 23

Homage

Question 24

The sort of pride that is so inflated it binds a character and destroys them. Even entire people. Ex. Macbeth

Answer 24

Hubris

Question 25

A comprehensive world view pertaining to formal and informal thought, philosophy, and cultural presuppositions

Answer 25

Ideology

Question 26

A perception of inconsistency (usually but not always humorous) in which an apparently straightforward statement or event is undermined by its context so as to give it a very different significance

Answer 26

Irony

Question 27

The end shot of planet of the apes. A painted background with matte coloring.

Answer 27

Matte shot

Question 28

A figure of speech in which one thing, idea, or action is referred to by a word or expression normally denoting another thing, idea, or action as to suggest some common quality shared by the two

Answer 28

Metaphor

Question 29

An unspecific critical term usually identifying a broad but identifiable literary method, mood, or matter that is not tied exclusively to a particular form or genre

Answer 29

Mode

Question 30

A design feature of architecture that strips ornament from structures in favor of clean, geometric design, expanses of glass, and exposed building elements

Answer 30

Modernism

Question 31

How directors connect ideas in a film. Shots are put together.

Answer 31

Montage

Question 32

A recurrent image; word, or phrase

Answer 32

Motif

Question 33

Features humans under the influence of outside or internal forces that reduce them to the levels of animals. Prey to their instincts

Answer 33

Naturalism and social Darwinism

Question 34

Usually an extended realistic fictional prosec

Answer 34

Novel

Question 35

A statement of expression that is self contradictory

Answer 35

Paradox

Question 36

The position or vantage point from which is story is told to us

Answer 36

Point of view

Question 37

A work that intends to stir up controversy

Answer 37

Polemic

Question 38

Fictional worlds selecting life after a global disaster

Answer 38

Post apocalyptic

Question 39

Applied to all forms of written or spoken expression not having a regular rhythmic pattern

Answer 39

Prose

Question 40

Central figure in a text or film

Answer 40

Protagonist

Question 41

A series of connected shots that establish a location

Answer 41

Scene

Question 42

Part of a film presented without editing as seen from a single cameras perspective

Answer 42

Shot

Question 43

A basic element of communication either linguistic or non linguistic that can be construed as having meaning

Answer 43

Sign

Question 44

The manner in which films and fiction proceed. Has a turning point, a climax, and an endgame

Answer 44

Story arc

Question 45

The quality of originating and existing in the mind of a perceiving subject and not corresponding to any object outside the mind

Answer 45

Subjectivity

Question 46

While not explicitly part of the plot, this novel deals heavily with religious ideas and themes

Answer 46

Subtext

Question 47

Associated with painting a film more than writing it

Answer 47

Surrealism

Question 48

Something that is itself and also stands for something else. Combines literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect

Answer 48

Symbol

Question 49

The way in which words and clauses are ordered and connected so as to form sentehces

Answer 49

Syntax

Question 50

Dramatic or melodramatic emerge of a plot; setting, or event

Answer 50

Tension

Question 51

A salient abstract idea that emerges from a literary work's treatment of its subject matter

Answer 51

Theme

Question 52

Philosophical I estimation into the nature of beauty and perception of beauty

Answer 52

Aesthetics