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, 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, spectators 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)