Visual Literacy Quiz 9

fourth wall

looks between depicted characters and spectators

scopophilia

erotic gratification derived from looking

cinematic apparatus

traditional social cinima space-darkened theater, mirror-like screen-invites regression to childlike state

objective shot

camera as third person viewer

literate

able to read or write, more generally, educated or learned

dominant-hegemonic reading

unquestioningly identify with the dominant ideology

oppositional reading

completely disagree, reject or ignore

visual poetics

examines rhetorical devices (figures of speech or tropes) in images and language

synecdoche

part standing for the whole “a hired hand”

personification

abstract ideas embodied in some person or animal

symbols

signs or objects that have, over time, acquired fixed secondary meanings

allegory

a treatment of one subject under the guise of another; a presentation of an abstract meaning through concrete forms

intertextuality

references to other works in the genre; “quoting;” game with audience, reflecting their sophistication as knowledgeable viewers

double meanings

visual puns, form overlapping or superimpositions

“breaking frame”

looks exchanged to characters outside the frame