Visual Text:

Technique Description

Salience The part that your eyes are first drawn to in a visual

Vectors Reading path when viewing a visual

Symbolism Use of an image often simple to convey complex ideas

Caption The text placed near a photograph, illustration or diagram in print media.

Chiaroscuro An effect of contrasted light and shadow

Omissions What has been deliberately left out

Body language and Facial expressions, gestures, stance of position, can convey the attitude and feelings.
gaze Take note of the direction of the subjects eyes

Semiotics A system of signs and symbols

Contrast Arrangement of opposite elements (light and dark, small and large)

Framing The same camera shots and angles relevant to film.

Colour symbolism Colours can convey the emotions and type of discovery

Literary Techniques
Technique Description

Alliteration The repetition of letters at start of successive words.

Analogy Comparison of something to another thing to convey some idea.

Anaphora Repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of two or more sentences.

Anastrophe The inversion of the usual order of adjectives and nouns (i.e. n,a instead of a,n).

Apocope Leaving a letter or syllable from the end of the word, often seen in slang language.

Assonance Repetition of a vowel sound within two or more words in close proximity.

Asyndeton A series of words separated by commas with no conjunctions.

Blank verse Non-rhyming poetry

Caesura Punctuation within poem at end of line

Cliche An over-used, common expression.

Consonance Repetition of consonants throughout a sentence or phrase

Connotation Implied meaning rather than literal meaning or denotation.

Colloquial language To provide a verisimilitude description.

Cumulative listing E.g. Sticks, stones, leaves, rocks

 Disjunction A conjunction (e.g. but or yet) that dramatically interrupts rhythm of a sentence.

Diacope When a phrase is cut in half e.g. To be, or not to be (Or not cuts to be in half)

Ellipsis A dramatic pause (...) creates tension or suggests words cant be spoken.

Enjambment In a poem where no punctuation is used at end of line.

Euphemism A softer way of saying something potentially hurtful.

Exclamation Conveys high emotion

Fractured/truncated Incomplete sentences used to increase tension or urgency.

sentences

Hyperbole Deliberate exaggeration for effect.

Irony Gap between what is said and what is meant.

Juxtaposition Contrast

High modality Definitive language

Metaphor Saying something is something else.

Onomatopoeia A word that echoes the sound it represents.

Oxymoron Juxtaposing two contradictory terms e.g. terrible beauty and bitter sweet.

Personification Giving animals or non-human things human qualities or traits.

Personal and Personal pronouns display the individual nature of discovery, while the collective
collective pronouns pronouns or absence of personal pronouns allows discovery to be universalised.

Polysyndeton Over use of and or conjunction words. E.g. apples and grapes and oranges.

Pysma Asking a series of questions in quick succession.

Repetition Words or phrase used two or more times in close proximity.

Rhetorical questions Asking questions with no actual reply

Rhyme Sing, ping, ding. Usually to provide flow for the poem.

Simile Comparison of 2 objects using like or as.

Sibilance Repetition of s sound at start of successive words.

Symbolism When an object represents complex ideas.

Tone The way composer or character feels - conveyed by word choice.

Verisimilitude Real life representation of events, adding to the impact of discovery on individuals
perceptions and values.

Some Good Phrases:

fostering a unique lens of perspective which can lead to renewed and intensely meaningful understandings
of oneself and the encompassing world
In the process accentuating that the catalyst for discovery can emerge from a process of deliberate and careful
planning or is evoked by curiosity, necessity and wonder as demonstrated in

The process of making discoveries is often challenging as it demands of individuals to reflect and reconsider
preconceived notions to alter worldviews.

Surprising and fundamentally challenging discoveries often require a shift in perspective and context as
portrayed in leading the persona to new worlds and values

The confronting and provocative nature of discovery can often lead an individual to reevaluate and alter their
perceptions and values as accentuated in

demonstrating the far-reaching and transformative impacts that discovery can have on individuals and
broader society that shift individuals from blindness to insight

The ramifications of particular discoveries may be questioned or affirmed when viewed from different
perspectives as represented in and thus their impact for distinct individuals may vary

The process of self-reflection and hindsight is essential for fundamental ideas to be challenged, reconsidered
and transformed, an idea that permeates in and thus the worth of these discoveries may be reassessed
over time.