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SB English12 midterm
Springboard English 12 midterm 2011
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Concepts about human life or culture | Ideology |
| Something that is trying to fight or overthrow authority | Subversive |
| To explain or tell the meaning of | Interpret |
| To provide as many examples as possible | Exhaustive representation |
| An act of criticizing or examining | Critique |
| A mental concept or point of view | Perception |
| A succinct statement expressing an opinion, perception, or general truth | Aphorism |
| An outline, brief account, or synopsis of an event | Scenario |
| Area of action that is captured by the camera | Frame |
| Cutting off or concealing unwanted parts of an image within a photograph | Cropping |
| Overall effect produced by the amount or type of light in a photograph | Lighting |
| Object, person, or matter being studied in the frame | Subject |
| Likeness of an object, person, or scene found in a frame | Image |
| Way in which the parts of something are arranged to present a visual image | Composition |
| The composition or setting of an image | Mise en scene |
| Area established or set apart by the arrangements of subjects or matter | Space |
| Focuses on a reader's engagement with a piece of print or non-print text. Reader's response to any text is shaded by the reader's own experiences. | Reader's response critical theory |
| Way of judging or analyzing a work of literature | Critical lens |
| Attempts to establish principles for interpreting and evaluating literary texts | Literary theory |
| Verbal expression of a sensory experience | Imagery |
| Details that appeal to or evoke one or more of the five senses | Sensory details |
| Choice of words, especially having to do with clearness, correctness | Diction |
| Bring out (especially emotion) | Evoke |
| A part of a whole | Detail |
| Poem paragraphs-a group of lines that form a unit within a poem | Stanzas |
| When you move on to the next line | Line breaks |
| Regularly repeated line or group of lines in a poem or song, usually at the end of a stanza | Refrain |
| The way words are arranged to form phrases, clauses, and sentences | Syntax |
| Figuring out what is implied (not said directly, but hinted at) | Inference |
| The introduction or preface to a literary work | Prologue |
| Informatio or situation surrounding something | Context |
| Author's attitude or mood | Tone |
| Any tool an author uses to enhance communication (literary devices, etc.) | Rhetorical strategy |
| Uses the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance | Parallel structure |
| Sentence that contains one independent clause and one or more subordinate clauses | Complex sentence |
| A sentence that makes sense only when the end of the sentence is reached | Periodic sentence |
| Improves clarity, reinforces meaning, constructs effect, and expresses the writer's voice | Punctuation |
| Gives equal weight to two or more independent clauses in a sentence | Semicolon |
| Marks a sudden change in thought or tone | Dash |
| A shot taken ABOVE the subject | High angle |
| Then main idea or point of an essay or article | Thesis |
| A shot taken BELOW the subject | Low angle |
| A brief visual, written, descriptive literary sketch | Vignette |
| The scene is flooded with light, creating a bright and open-looking scene | High key |
| A single piece of film, uninterrupted by cuts | Shot |
| The image is part of a whole, such as an eye | Extreme close up |
| A shot taken from a normal height | Eye level |
| Direct lighting from BELOW or the SIDE, which often makes the subject appear dangerous or evil | Bottom or side lighting |
| The scene is flooded with shadows and DARKNESS, creating suspense or suspicion | Low key |
| The image takes up at least 80% of the frame | Close up (CU) |
| Soft lighting on the actor's FACE or from BEHIND, gives the appearance of innocence or goodness (halo effect) | Front or back lighting |
| The most common shot. The camera Shot that is a medium distance from the object being filmed-shows the person from the waist up | Medium shot |
| Often a long shot that sets the scene; it establishes the setting and shows transitions between locations | Establishing shot |
| A shot from some distance. If filming a person, the whole body is shown (shows isolation or vulnerability) | Long shot (LS) |
| A scene between two people, shot exclusively from an angle that included BOTH characters equally | Two shot |
| Focuses on the elements of culture and how they affect one's perceptions and understanding of texts | Cultural criticism |
| To relegate or confine to a lower or outer limit (as in social standing) | Marginalize |
| A literary or artistic work that imitates the characteristic style of an author or a work for comic effect | Parody |
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