Mass Comm - Aesthetics and Transmit Culture Quiz Practice

This branch of philosophy deals with the nature of beauty, appreciation of beauty, and asks how can beauty be created as well.

• beautology
• metaphysics

• aesthetics
• epistemology

This element of aesthetics deals with different forms that, when put together, can create a complete object like a house, church, mountains, or just about anything you could want portrayed in a work of art.

• shape

• color
• texture
• composition

This element of aesthetics can do many things. It is used to make shapes. It is also used if you want to create a sense of depth, you would show parts of this element being interrupted.

• contrast

• texture
• lines

• color

This element of aesthetics is a guideline that places the subject in the left or right third of an image, leaving the other two thirds more open.

• contrast

• texture

• rule of thirds
• rule of halves

_____ are widely held and over simplified images or perceptions of a particular type of person. This is the language of Mass Media.

• generalizations
• stereotypes
• prejudices
• biases

This term acknowledges that the languages we speak from our earliest years can cause us to think in different ways than if we grew up speaking a different language.

• language relativity
• linguistic determinism

• cultural relativity
• linguistic stereotypes

What is the invention that strongly led to the evolution of modern mass media?

• Gutenberg printing press

• telephone
• internet
• television

This element of aesthetics is used to create a sense of depth. You can have objects overlapping, or adjust the apparent size of objects, and when you do that carefully, you can create a sense of foreground, middle ground and background.

• perspective
• contrast
• shapes

• texture