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

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Allegory

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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

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Allusion

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Openess to different interpretations

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Ambiguity

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

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Anti-Hero

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

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Archetype

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Cruel humor

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Black comedy

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

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Camera movement

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A body of works considered authentic

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Canon

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

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Catharsis

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

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Connotation

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

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Denotation

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

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Denouement

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

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Determinism/deterministic

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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

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Deus ex machina

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15
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Literary word choice

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Diction

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

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Didactic

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

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Dystopia

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A paradise of some sort- opposite of dystopia

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Utopia

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

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Fatal flaw

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

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Figure of speech

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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

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Form

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

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Genre

23
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A nod of the head

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Homage

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

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Hubris

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

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Ideology

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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

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Irony

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

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Matte shot

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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

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Metaphor

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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

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Mode

30
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A design feature of architecture that strips ornament from structures in favor of clean, geometric design, expanses of glass, and exposed building elements

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Modernism

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

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Montage

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A recurrent image; word, or phrase

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Motif

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

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Naturalism and social Darwinism

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Usually an extended realistic fictional prosec

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Novel

35
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A statement of expression that is self contradictory

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Paradox

36
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The position or vantage point from which is story is told to us

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Point of view

37
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A work that intends to stir up controversy

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Polemic

38
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Fictional worlds selecting life after a global disaster

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Post apocalyptic

39
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Applied to all forms of written or spoken expression not having a regular rhythmic pattern

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Prose

40
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Central figure in a text or film

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Protagonist

41
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A series of connected shots that establish a location

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Scene

42
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Part of a film presented without editing as seen from a single cameras perspective

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Shot

43
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A basic element of communication either linguistic or non linguistic that can be construed as having meaning

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Sign

44
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The manner in which films and fiction proceed. Has a turning point, a climax, and an endgame

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Story arc

45
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The quality of originating and existing in the mind of a perceiving subject and not corresponding to any object outside the mind

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Subjectivity

46
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While not explicitly part of the plot, this novel deals heavily with religious ideas and themes

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Subtext

47
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Associated with painting a film more than writing it

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Surrealism

48
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Something that is itself and also stands for something else. Combines literal and sensuous quality with an abstract or suggestive aspect

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Symbol

49
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The way in which words and clauses are ordered and connected so as to form sentehces

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Syntax

50
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Dramatic or melodramatic emerge of a plot; setting, or event

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Tension

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

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Theme

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

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Aesthetics

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