Please enable JavaScript.
Coggle requires JavaScript to display documents.
Literature, Arts and Architecture Terminology
Glossary (Literature…
Literature, Arts and Architecture Terminology
Glossary
Literature
Books
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Suspense: this genre causes the audience to always be in a feeling of alert and waiting for something bad to happen.
-
Elements and structure
-
-
-
Mood: choice of setting, objects, details, etc. to create a specific mood.
-
-
Expository or introductory: material that presents the characters, gives the setting, creates the tone, etc.
-
-
Conflict: what creates the plot, the problems in the story.
-
-
-
-
Characterization
Major Characters: Is a character that change the result that happens to him is reffres to literature as a dynamic character.
-
-
-
Minor Characters: Almost always flat or two-dimensional characters.Their predominant quality is not balanced by an opposite quality.
Point of view
First person: The narrator is the character that can reveal
personal thoughts and feelings and
what he or she sees and is told by other characters.
-
-
-
Visual Arts
Paintings
-
Techniques
-
-
-
Sand painting: type of art made with quantities of crushed and colored sandstone, charcoal, pollen and other dry material.
-
Drawings
Materials
Pencil: piece of wood with a rod of black colores substance in the middle, it is used for writing or drawing.
-
-
-
-
Techniques
-
Hatching: consists in making parallel lines all over the page, the closer they are the darker they'll look.
-
-
-
Sculpting
-
Techniques
Carving: cutting away a piece from a mass of stone, wood, etc.
-
-
-
-
Photography
Techniques
-
-
Black and white: photos with B&W filters, using lights and shadows to make a good photo
-
-
Materials
Good Camera: an article you use to take photographs, making films, or producing television pictures
-
-
-
Performing Arts
Music
Genres
-
Country: american music from the Southeast and West cowboy music, vocalized accompanied by guitar, banjo and harmonica.
-
-
-
-
Heavy Metal: aggressive, rhythms and highly amplified distorted guitars.
-
Jazz: associated with saxophone and trumpet, it´s about improvisation.
-
Theater
Techniques
Stage Presence and Authencity: speak powerful for the voice, gestures and storytelling to transmit their message.
-
-
-
-
-
Dance
Styles
Ballet: is a classical form of dancing it includes grace and precision, it demands making patterns to create expression through movement.
-
Tap: You can define it like musical feet, they wear special shoes to create the rhythm.
-
Jazz: is a popular style that it´s influenced by ballet, tap, hip-hop and more styles. They have more foot freedom to bend and move with the music beat.
-
Modern: it defines like the rebelion against ballet. It has relationship with the floor, contraction & connection of breath and movement.
-
Lyrical: It encompasses ballet, jazz and modern, it´s expressive and dynamic.
-
Hip Hop: is an urban style, it´s raw, edgy and intense. Is danced to hip hop, rap and urban.
-
Contemporary: it embodies ballet, modern, jazz and lyrical. It can be danced with all types of music.
-
Architecture
Styles
-
-
Gothic: thin walls, slender columns, adorn windows with stained glass to drag the eye upwards.
-
Modernist: styles as Futurism, Post-modern and New Classical, focus on simplicity
-
Films
-
Genres
-
-
-
-
-
-
Science fiction: it uses fictional places, characters and they're usually about aliens.
-
General terms
-
-
-
-
Figurative
Representing something exactly as it looks, not in an abstract way.
-
-
Naturalism
Showing things as they really are, with no changes.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-