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Genres of 21st Century Literature: Film as Literature Glossary

In regard to these terms, it is helpful to always ask yourself this about a medium like film: How does the apparatus allow us to perceive a story or an argument in a way that our sense organs do not?

You are to produce an animated slide in our communal slide deck where the following elements are revealed:

1) the word or phrase;2) a definition that you harvest from our class documents or the web; this needs to be phrased

in a way that you can understand it and your intended audience can understand it;3) a visual example from a film or photograph;4) the likely effect of the device on a defined audience; 5) an application of the device in a film you could imagine making.

Denotation:

Connotation:

Film Terms:Film Shot:

Extreme Close-up:

Close-up:

Medium Shot:

Long Shot:

Extreme Long Shot or Distance Shot:

Establishing Shot:

Tracking Shot:

High Camera Angle:

Low Camera Angle:

Bird’s Eye View Shot:

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Camera Pan:

Camera Tilt:

Point of view shot (POV):

Over the shoulder shot (OS,OTS)

Oblique (Dutch) Angle:

Dolly Zoom:

Two Shot:

Long Take:

Composition:

The Rule of Thirds:

Editing:

Cut:

Jump Cut:

Continuity Cuts:

Dissolve/Lap-dissolve:

Vsevolod Pudovkin’s Editing Techniques (Look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jiiM3X3_XM&t=3s)Contrast:

Parallelism:

Symbolism:

Simultaneity (Cross-Cutting):

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Leitmotif:

Narrative Terms (Narrative Mode of Expression):Setting:

Characterization:

Direct Characterization:

Indirect Characterization:

Flat Character:

Round Character:

Static Character:

Dynamic Character:

Stock Character:

Protagonist:

Antagonist:

Hero:

Antihero:

Caricature:

Foil:

Confidant:

Monologue:

Internal Monologue:

Dialogue:

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Symbol:

Motif:

MacGuffin:

Plot Chart (Freytag’s Pyramid):

Exposition:

Rising Action:

Conflict:

Person vs. Person:

Person vs. Self:

Person vs. Society:

Person vs. Nature:

Person vs. God/Fate/Supernatural:

Person vs. Technology:

Climax:

Falling Action:

Denouement (Resolution):

Narrative Perspective (Point of View):

First Person Point of View:

Third Person Omniscient:

Third Person Limited Omniscient:

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Irony:

Situational Irony:

Verbal Irony:

Dramatic (or Tragic) Irony:

Narrative Frameworks: Bildungsroman:

En Medias Res:

Flashback:

Cliffhanger (aka Serial)

Christopher Booker’s The Seven Basic Plots:

Overcoming the Monster:

Rags to Riches:

The Quest:

Voyage and Return:

Comedy:

Tragedy:

Rebirth:

Hero’s Journey:

Values:

Theme:

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Four Literary Principles:Contrast:

Progression/Regression:

Parallelism:

Repetition:

Documentary Filmmaking TermsDialogue:

Factual:

Fictional:

Footage:

Persuade:

Point of View:

Re-enactment:

Represent:

Stock Footage (archival footage):

Subjects:

Voice-over:

Expository (Explanation/Information) Writing Terms (Expository Mode of Expression):Descriptive Essay:

Process Essay:

Comparison Essay:

Cause/Effect Essay:

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Problem/Solution Essay:

Argumentative Writing Terms . (Persuasive Mode of Expression) Argument/Claim:

Evidence:

Types of Evidence:

Anecdotal Evidence:

Testimonial Evidence:

Statistical Evidence:

Analogical Evidence:

Thesis and Pillars:

Compare/Contrast:

Opposing Pattern:

Alternating Pattern:

Straw Man:

Concession:

(Descriptive Mode of Expression):Mood:

Tone:

Tone Wheel:

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