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What term is defined as “giving human characteristics to inanimate objects”?
Personification.
True or false: it is always necessary to include context for the quote that you are analyzing in a response paragraph.
True.
In a graphic novel, what are the squares or rectangles that contain a single scene called?
Panels
What is the name of the author of Kitchen?
Banana Yoshimoto
What country does Persepolis take place in?
Iran
“In the eastern sky there was a yellow patch like a rug laid for the feet of the coming sun” is an example of what literary device?
Simile
True or false: you should use first and second person pronouns in a response paragraph.
False.
What are the spaces between panels that indicate the passage of time and separation from one event to the next called?
Gutters
What is the name of Yuichi's mother with whom Mikage grows close with? (Spelling counts)
Eriko
As a young child, Marji wants to become a prophet. After the Rex Cinema fire, she decides she wants to become a...?
Revolutionary
In literary works, authors often hint at future events. What is this technique called?
Foreshadowing
True or false: the topic sentence of a response paragraph should be a general statement about a universal theme.
False.
These contain a character's unspoken thoughts.
Thought balloons.
What job does Mikage take during the summer with the Tanabes?
She becomes a culinary teacher's assistant.
True or false, Marji is a religious child.
True.
The exposition often gives information about the time and place where a story takes place. This is also known as what?
Setting
What tense should response paragraphs always be written in?
Present tense (yes, even when describing what happens in a story!)
In a graphic novel, what are the artistic representations of feelings, emotions, or movement called?
Emanata
Name the kind of imagery in this quote:
"This katsudon, encountered almost by accident, was made with unusual skill, I must say. Good quality meat, excellent broth, the eggs and onions handled beautifully, the rice with just the right degree of firmness to hold up in the broth -- it was flawless."
Gustatory Imagery
Characterization is the way that an author reveals physical and personality traits of a character. What character in Persepolis is characterized in this quote: "At the beginning of the revolution, in 1978, she fell in love with the neighbor's son. She was sixteen years old."
Mehri, Marji's maid
What is the literary term used to describe a speaker or narrator’s attitude toward the subject of the piece?
Tone
Name the five parts of a response paragraph.
Topic sentence, context, quote, analysis, conclusion.
If the panel were a photograph, this term defines the perspective of the camera in relation to the subject, which resultingly affects the reader’s understanding of the subject.
Camera Angle
In Chapter 2, Mikage has a daydream of her standing next to Yuichi. For full credit: name what they are climbing and what they are peering (looking) into.
A ladder and a cauldron of hell.
Name two reasons why Persepolis wanted to become a prophet.
Her maid ate separately from the rest of the family; her family drove a nice car; her grandmother's joints hurt (In others words, she wanted to eliminate injustice, inequality, and suffering)