Year 10 Visual Text Analysis

The overall feeling an image creates can be referred to as...

• angle

• focus

• tone

• labels

An angle sloping down, making a character look smaller, indicates...

• inferiority

• power

• weakness

• superiority

An angle sloping up towards a character, making them look larger, indicates...

• power

• superiority

• weakness

• inferiority

The part of the image that is furthest away from the viewer is called the...

The part of the image that is nearest to the viewer is called the...

Context can best be defined as which of the following?

• The attitude and opinion expressed through captions, speech bubbles and labels.

• The physical appearance of key characters in the image.

• The arrangement of objects in the image.

• The circumstances or setting in which a particular event occurs, which can help to understand its meaning.

The issue refers to the...

• event or problem

• cartoonist's point of view

• context of the cartoon

• feeling of the piece

A cartoonist's contention is the...

• point of view explored

• issue explored

• feeling created

• exaggeration used

A picture, description or imitation of a person with certain characteristics exaggerated.

• Parody

• Caricature

• Symbolism

• Allusion

Humorous exaggerated imitation of another text, film, TV show, song or artwork.

• analogy

• satire

• allusion

• parody