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a style of writing and speaking that is dramatises events, e.g. Horses drowned, houses washed away, and panic everywhere: that was the scene that greeted Upington mayor, Sid Pretorious, as he battled his way down the High Street in the frantic first hours of daylight on that fateful Saturday morning.
a thematic element that recurs throughout a literary text or film. In film a colour, form, shape...
a syllable that ends in a consonant, e.g. cap, sit, men.
when one shot is faded to black, and then the next shot is faded in. A director might be showing...