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