English Language & Usage Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for linguists, etymologists, and serious English language enthusiasts. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
I am creating a game in which I want to create a "What is what section", it is basically going to be a list of items containing an image with its name per item (Example image of the lead character with his name, image of a magical cube with its name etc etc).
What should such a section be called?
Example:
Confused knowing what is what? Visit the ____ section."
I need a word for the blank space.
A simple answer would be to call it the "reference section".
The Oxford English dictionary gives as one of the definitions of "reference":
"direction to a book, passage, etc., where information may be found"
You might try something along the lines of "pictorial lexicon". Here's an example of one.
Cheers!
If you are truly just having an image and its name (no further sentences of explanation), then that is a key. The online Oxford English Dictionary definition is:
An explanatory list of symbols used in a map, table, etc.
If you will describe each thing, then you might call this a glossary.
The part of a document that defines specialized terms is a glossary.
Since your glossary uses images, it is a visual glossary. You can leave out the word "section" from your example, because glossary already implies that meaning.
