Aural/Oral Techniques Flashcards
Dramatic pause
Causes tension gives indication that something important is about to happen
Emphasis
Reinforces / emphasizes ideas feelings or motifs in the text
Tone
Expresses feeling / atmosphere
EG melancholic angry excited anxious inspired uplifted
Imperatives
To give direct orders symbolising strength or power
Inflection
Voice modulation that indicates a question or tension
Register
The level of formality or informality of the dialogue
Sound
Diegetic = sound that exists within the story / source can be seen
Non-diegetic = off stage noise or sound from which the source cannot be seen
Score
Music that adds atmosphere or motion to the spoken words
Volume
Affects perception of characters / events
Loud : power authority Anger inspiration excitement
Soft: reverence poignancy seriousness suspense submission
Pace/tempo
The pace at which the dialogue is delivered
Fast: urgency importance panic hysteria excitement
Slow: relaxed passive peaceful foreboding imminent danger
Truncated sentence
A sentence that is started but not finished symbolising urgency or desperation
Interjection
voices crossing over layering text and sound creating feeling and poignancycy
is used in Macbeth to symbolise Macbeth and lady macbeth’s connection and relationship
Assonance
Resemblance in the sounds of the words / syllables either between the vowels or between the consonants
Accent
A stressed word or syllable also similar to emphasis
Consonance
Repetition of identical or similar sounding consonants
Euphony
Aesthetic or pleasing to the ear
Meter
A unit of rhythm in poetry or the pattern of the beats
Onomatopoeia
A word that is formed from the sound associated with what is named
Example: Bang crash boom
Repetiton
A word or phrase given multiple times to emphasize or convince the audience of a point
Rhyme
Correspondence of sound twin words or the ending of words especially when these are used at the ends of lines of poetry
Rhythm
the beat or the pace of a poem it’s created by the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in a line or verse it can help to strengthen the meaning of words and ideas in a poem
Sibalence
when a repeated consonant sound is either s, sh, z any other recognised filament sound sibilance occurs when the repetition of these specific continents are in close proximity
Prosody
The patterns of rhythm & sound used in poetry
