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Literary Analysis Terms
Review
What is content?
a. The subject of an artwork/movie.
b. The meaning of the movie.
c. The movie’s look.
d. Individual scenes or shots.
Answer: A
What is form?
a. Form is what happens in the story.
b. Forms refers to a story’s genre.
c. Form refers to the movie as a whole.
d. Form is the means through which a
subject/movie is expressed.
Answer: D
What term refers to a unifying idea that the film
expresses through its narrative?
a. Setting
b. plot
c. Theme
d. Presentation
e. Story formula
Answer: C
What is plot?
a. Where and when the story takes place
b. The events of the story seen on screen
c. The events in the characters lives that happen before the movie takes place
d. The events of the story that includes those seen on screen and those that make up the backgrounds of the characters
Answer: B
The antagonist of a movie’s narrative is:
a. is the central figure of the movie
b. can be a person or force of nature
c. is a virtuous individual
d. has well-motivated actions
Answer: B
What are the experiences of a character or the circumstances of
an event that supposedly occurred before the start of the
movie’s narrative?
a. Plot points
b. Subplot points
c. Prequels
d. Backstories
e. Logical progressions
ANSWER: D
What term refers to secondary plots that run
under the main plot?
a. Plot points
b. Subplot points
c. Prequels
d. Backstories
e. Logical progressions
What are characters that are complex and three-
dimensional, possessing several traits, called?
a. round characters
b. flat characters
c. leading characters
d. supporting characters
e. all characters
ANSWER: A
Which term describes one-dimensional characters who possess very few
discernable traits and whose motives and actions are generally predictable and
known?
a. round characters
b. flat characters
c. leading characters
d. supporting characters
e. all characters
ANSWER: B
What is the term for the central figure of a story who is often
referred to as the hero, although he or she may not necessarily be
a hero?
a. Major character
b. Protagonist
c. Antagonist
d. Leading man/woman
e. Title character
ANSWER: B
What do we call the time and place in
which the story occurs?
a. Plot
b. Setting
c. Location
d. Storyboard
e. Backstory
ANSWER: B
Scope is ______
a. The events of the story
b. The number of characters in the movie
c. The expanse of the sets in the movie
d. The overall time of a movie’s story
e. The overall time and place of the movie
ANSWER: E
Generally, the narrator in film is _____.
a. the main character
b. A narrating voice that speaks to the
audience
c. A marginal character
d. The camera
_______ is when a narrating voice speaks to
the audience.
a. Breaking the fourth wall
b. Voice over narration
c. Third person narration
d. Omniscient narration
When an image or object represents
something else, it is called a ______.
a. Character
b. Costume
c. Motif
d. Symbol
e. Theme
A ______ is a recurring image.
a. Character
b. Costume
c. Motif
d. Symbol
e. Theme
_____ is when tension in the film builds.
a. Suspense
b. Surprise
c. Rising action
d. Falling action
_____ is when something totally unexpected
happens.
a. Suspense
b. Surprise
c. Rising action
d. Falling action
How can a movie develop character?
What is the rule of thirds?
Sleepy Hollow (1999). Tim Burton, director.
Mise-en-scène creates this unified look.
Composition and design
The rule of thirds relates to _______.
a. Character
b. Composition
c. Plot
d. Setting
e. suspense
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