Analytical Vocabulary:
Represent: show, portray, depict, symbolise, embody, demonstrate, reveal
Support: endorse, confirm, verify, validate
Power: control, dominance, authority
Persuade: influence, encourage, convince, manipulate, direct, affect
Use: employ, apply,
Construct: create, build, fabricate
Imply: suggest, denotes, insinuate, hint, indicate, allude
Emphasise: highlight, draw attention to, accentuate, stress, focus
Disapprove: condemn, reject, challenge, criticize
Approve: support, agree, commend
Argue: Contend, reason, dispute
Admit: confess, declare, reveal, expose
Defend: protect, shield
Explore: investigate, discuss
Condone: excuse, disregard, ignore, accept, allow, tolerate
Aspire: desire, hope wish
Discriminate: distinguish, categorise, treat differently
Culture: The shared characteristics of a particular group of people, defined by
their language, appearance, beliefs and behaviours
TERMINOLGY FOR STILL IMAGES
Symbolism/symbolic objects
Camera shots/angles
Focus
Lighting: high key, low key, natural
Body language
Costume
Facial expressions
Foreground, background, middle ground
Setting
Weather
Gaze: direct, spectator’s gaze, intra-diegetic, averted
Font style and size
Command
Instruct
Rhetorical question
Statistics
Slogan
TERMINOLGY FOR NARRATIVE TEXTS
Point of view: first, second, third, third omniscient
Imagery: personification, simile, metaphor, symbolism, onomatopoeia
Adjectives
Adverbs
Verbs
Narrative structure/plot
Characterisation (includes appearance, actions, dialogue)
Dialogue (also discuss how the dialogue is spoken e.g. whispered, shouted,
mumbled etc)
Punctuation
Setting (includes weather)
Gaps and silences (what information is excluded and forces the reader to
‘fill in the gaps’ with their own assumptions?)
Genre
TERMINOLGY FOR NON-FICTION TEXTS
Facts
Statistics
Dates
Events
Emotive language
Rhetorical question
Repetition
Quote from an expert
Anecdote (a brief personal story)
Selection of detail (consider what information has been included and
what has been deliberately left out)
Tone (which achieved through all the other devices)
Punctuation
Alliteration
Case studies
Genre (autobiography, biography, feature article, opinion, letter etc)
TERMINOLGY FOR FEATURE FILM
Symbolism/symbolic objects
Camera shots/angles
Camera movement: panning, dolly shot, crane shot etc)
Montage
Focus
Lighting: high key, low key, natural
Body language
Costume
Facial expressions
Foreground, background, middle ground
Setting
Weather
Soundtrack (music, sound effects, voiceovers)
Dialogue
Special effects
Characterisation
Plot
Narrative structure
Hero (Protagonist)
Villain (Antagonist)
Sidekick
Mentor
Genre (adventure, romance, coming-of-age, horror, drama, musical)