Graphic Novel Elements

Question 1

visual rhetoric

Answer 1

the how/why visual images communicate meaning

looking at and understanding an image

Question 2

visual literacy

Answer 2

involves all the processes of knowing and responding to a visual image, as well as all the thought that might go into constructing or manipulating an image
responding to an image and changing it to convey emotion

Question 3

cartoon

Answer 3

an approach or style of picture making

abstracted and simplified images

Question 4

comics

Answer 4

the medium through which cartoons are employed

Question 5

graphic narrative

Answer 5

a narrative work in the medium of comics which combines the written word with imagery of film and art
embedded within are expressionism and synesthetics

Question 6

influences of modern literature on graphic narrative

Answer 6

fragmentation, experimentation with form, implied themes in which one mentally constructs a continuous undefined reality

Question 7

expressionism

Answer 7

presents the world from subjective perspective
a radical distortion of reality for emotional affect
evokes moods and ideas

Question 8

synesthetics

Answer 8

senses connected in art
literature- connects one sense to another sense
graphic novel- connects emotions and sense to artistic portrayals

Question 9

significance of black and white cartoons

Answer 9

participation of reader is essential

abstraction of images allows us to relate more with them

Question 10

visual iconography

Answer 10

the vocabulary of comics

Question 11

icon

Answer 11

any image used to represent a person, place, thing, or idea

Question 12

closure

Answer 12

act of observing the parts but perceiving the whole (grammar of comics)

Question 13

panel

Answer 13

frame

Question 14

gutter

Answer 14

space between panels

Question 15

speech bubble

Answer 15

dialogue

Question 16

border

Answer 16

bleeds- lack thereof, fading/open from one panel to another

Question 17

text box

Answer 17

narrative

Question 18

backgrounds

Answer 18

can be within a panel or a bigger sense of the whole screen itself

Question 19

transitions

Answer 19

panel to panel, action to action, subject to subject, scene to scene, aspect to aspect, non-sequitur

Question 20

panel to panel transition

Answer 20

moment to moment, minimal time between panels

Question 21

action to action transition

Answer 21

panels drawn when actions take place

Question 22

subject to subject transition

Answer 22

panels drawn from dialogue to dialogue

show perspective of different characters

Question 23

scene to scene transition

Answer 23

significant differences in time and space

Question 24

aspect to aspect transition

Answer 24

wandering eye, panorama

shows settings

Question 25

non-sequitur transition

Answer 25

no logical relationship between panels

Question 26

metafiction

Answer 26

writing about writing

Question 27

metafiction in Maus

Answer 27

Spiegelman writes about his process of interviewing his father and trying to understand, interpret the memories