English

• Simile: figure of speech that uses 'like' or 'as' to compare things directly
• Hyperbole: exaggeration
• Metaphor: a figure of speech that compares things that are not related at all.
• Assonance: rhyme but with only vowels  

  E.g "the rain in Spain"
• Imagery: when words make a picture in your head
• Alliteration: repeating the first letter of a word
• Personification: giving non human things human emotions.
• Onomatopoeia: sound words
• PQE:

  • P= point
  • Q= quote
  • E= explain
• Exposition: intro to a story

  Rising action: build up/ suspense to a climax

  Climax: main conflict of story/ highest point of tension

  Falling action: when the tension is being decreased and everything starts to come together

  end: the conclusion of the story

  
• Human family

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• Bridging: bridging the gap between one scene and another to explain a move in time or place.
• Montage: editing and peicing together parts of the footage to show the passage of time.
• Cross cutting: when you take two or more film sequences and cuts between them as the scene goes on.
• Oblique angle: tilted angle, used in horror movie
• Low angle: on the ground looking up at a character to make them look tall/ powerful.
• High angle: looking down at the character making them look small/ vulnerable.
• Bird's eye view: drone angle
• Eye level angle: neutral camera angle that looks equal to character.
• Camera depth types: 

  • Extreme wide shot
  • Wide shot
  • Medium shot
  • Medium close up
  • Close up
  • Extreme close up
• Poetry is made up of:

  • Syllables
  • Words
  • Lines
  • Stanzas
• 1st person: me, us, I, we
• 2nd person: You, Me
• 3rd person: he, she, they them
• Annotation: writing down your observation on a poem.
• Subject: the thing/person/ place that the poem is about.
• Theme: the underlining message or idea expressed in a poem.
• Free verse: lines of poetry without any set rhyme scheme or metre.
• Verse: lines of poetry with a regular rhythmic pattern.
• Tone: the attitude of the poet towards their subject matter.
• Mood: readers emotions
• Synonym: comparing similar things