All Things English

What is a thematic statement?

• the ideas presented about a motif

• a life lesson or message that the author has tried to convey about a theme

• the moral behind the text

• the compositional elements of a story

True or false, juxtaposition refers to the placing of two things side by side to highlight their differences

A theme is the main (a)   in a text

A motif is a literary technique that consists of a repeated element that has symbolic significance to a literary work

• False

• True

A traditional narrative is structured in the following way

• beginning, climax, falling action, resolution.

• Exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.

• Orientation, adventure, plot twist, resolution.

• introduction, body paragraph, conclusion.

A metaphor is...

• a figure of speech involving the comparison of one thing with another

• an elephant in a room

• a feeling made figurative

• a thing regarded as representative or symbolic of something else

Salient image means the least noticable or unimportant aspect of an image

• True

• False

scale, proximity, boundaries, layout and landscape all refer to what mode of meaning

• spatial

• audio

• gestural

• visual

framing, colours, texture, line, casting, contrast, camera movement are all...

• director techniques

• audio modes of meaning

• visual modes of meaning

• spatial modes of meaning

Dialogue is...

• a conversation

• a personal monologue

• a stream-of-consciousness

• a conversation between two or more people as a feature of a text