Who is Who:Big Names
Literary Terms
Concepts
BONUS
Graphic Text Terms
100
Born in Alabama, he was inspired by MLK, the concepts of nonviolent protest and racial injustice to become a leader in the Civil Rights movement. He loved chickens as a child.
Who is John Lewis?
100
When an author gives the reader a hint of what is coming in the story ahead.
What is to forshadow?
100
When blacks and whites must attend seperate schools, pray in seperate churches, drink from seperate drinking fountains and eat in seperate resteraunts.
What is segregation?
100

What is it called when someone writes their life story?

What is an autobiography?

100

The space between panels is called this. It indicates a jump in time/place/story.

What is the gutter?

200
The most famous Civil Rights leader, he inspired John Lewis to join the Civil Rights movement. He led the Montgomery Bus boycott and has a memorial on the National Mall.
Who is Martin Luther King, Jr.?
200
When a story leaps back in time.
What is a flashback?
200
When farmers pay the land owners the rent, usually half the crops that were raised that year. A system used to keep blacks poor and landless.
What is sharecropping?
200

What is it called when someone selectively tells a story about a part of their life?

What is a memoir?

200

This is pattern/contrast/other visual difference meant to draw the reader's eye and direct their attention.

What is graphic weight?

300
Brutally murdered by white men, this 14 year old boy's mother opened his coffin to the world and the media and insprired thousands to join the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Emmett Till?
300
The main character of a story.
What is the protagonist?
300
The Supreme Court decision that said blacks and whites could go to different schools, ride different buses, etc., as long as the were both treated the same.
What is seperate but equal?
300
When advocates for social change achieve goals through symbolic protests, civil disobedience, economic and political noncooperation, without using violence.
What is non-violent resistance?
300

This is the term for a panel that is larger than others presented.

What is a splash panel?

400

The first black president, his inauguration day is the opening setting to the graphic novel, March, the John Lewis story.

Who is Barack Obama?

400

When writing is based in historical fact, but makes up details.

What is historical fiction (March is not an example of this).

400

When segregation is legalized in the judicial system by law.

What are Jim Crow laws?

400

Traveling to New York, John Lewis is forever changed by what he sees; this change depicted is visually in the text.

What is that we see that he is growing up, which also represents his maturing perspective?

400

This device acts like narration; it tells the reader context.

What is a caption?

500

Inspired by the murder of Emmett Till to join the Civil Rights Movement, she was with John Lewis at Barack Obama's inauguration. She was the woman who refused to move to the back of the bus.

Who is Rosa Parks?

500
When a story is told by person who speaks using "I" and tells the story from his or her point of view.
What is first person narrative.
500

Emmett Till's death had this effect.

Brought public attention to the horrors of lynching and injustice.

500

The event that John Lewis uses to forshadow the Civil Rights Movement opens his graphic novel March.

What is Bloody Sundy on the Selma Bridge?

500

A figure's _______________ and ________________ indicate what the artist is trying to say about their mood, importance, relationship to the scene, etc.

What are expression and positioning?
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