Poetry/Film WORDS Flashcards
Static image
An image or cartoon that is still
Target audience
The specific group defined by age, gender, social status, etc
Message
Link to the theme/ function/ purpose, main idea that the image contains.
Image
The key element, used for attraction
Layout
The way the static image is set out on the page.
Shades
Different tones of dark and light to capture attention
Contrast
Different colors, tones, shades, and images used to show up the differences.
Superimposition
One image placed over another for effect
Color/association
Eg, red with danger, white with surrender etc..
Foregrounds/background
Back/front of the image
Framing
use of a border within the image for effect
Font
Size and nature of lettering for effect
Reverse text
White printing on the black background or conversely.
Symbol
An image of something small that represents something much larger.
Stereotype
A generalized image that is used to represent a certain group in society.
Caricature
taking two identifiable features from something then exaggerating them
Logo
A design used to signify a business or company
Slogan
A short memorable phase or group of words used to associate with a product.
Meter
measured arrangement of accents and syllables in poetry.
Full rhyme
when the two rhyming words begin with a different consonant sound, then have the same vowel sound, and end with the same consonant sound (night/delight).
Half rhyme:
when only single consonant or vowel sounds are the same:
End-rhyme
rhyme at the end of line.
Internal rhyme
rhyme within a line
Sibilant sounds:
: repeated ‘s’ and ‘sh’ sounds, can be soft or sinister.
Plosive sounds
b,’ ‘p,’ ‘d,’ and ‘t’ sounds. The effect is sharp and abrupt.
Liquid sounds
‘l’ sounds. Can create a sense of quick light movement.
Fricative sounds
f,’ ‘v,’ and ‘th’ sounds. Can create an airy effect.
Stanza
the units into which the lines of a poem are separated.
Refrain
a phrase, line, or group of lines repeated at intervals throughout the poem.
Caesura
when punctuation is used to create a pause within a line.
Enjambment:
where the sentences carries over into the next line. Enjambment diminishes pauses and thus speeds up rhythm.
Allusion
A brief, intentional reference to a historical, mythic, or literary person, place, event, or movement.
Antithesis
when words and phrases with opposite meaning and implications are used to achieve contrast.
Irony
expressing an implied meaning that is different to the meaning directly stated.
Symbolism
when an object contained within the fictional world of the text represents another abstract meaning.
Zoomorphism
the attribution of animal characteristics to an inanimate thing.
Sensory imagery
language and description that invokes the senses (visual, auditory, olfactory, tactile, gustatory, kinaesthetic).
Synaesthesia
: when the invocation of one sense is described as simultaneously invoking another.
Sonnet:
Usually a single stanza of fourteen lines or an octet followed by a sestet. Written in iambic pentameter and deals with loft subject matter.
Ballad:
a song which tells a story. Usually contains quatrains.
Lyric
short, non-narrative poem in which a single speaker presents a state of mind or emotional state.
Free verse
verse which does not rhyme and which has lines of varying lengths according to the ebb and flow of the poet’s emotions.
