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Graphic Novel Techniques
100

Sound that that characters on screen cannot hear.

What is non-diagetic sound?

100

A technique used to show how many "things" each soldier carried in the first chapter.

What is listing?

100
In Maus, this animal is used to represent Americans.
What are Dogs?
100

The name of the person Blake and Schofield are to reach to give orders to stop the attack.

Who is Colonel Mackenzie?

100

The term given for the relationship between The Joker and Batman's costume.

What is juxtaposition?

200

This term refers to camera shots, angles and movement.

What is Cinematography?

200

The Things They Carried is not a traditional novel, but rather a linked collection of these.

What are short stories?

200

This item was fought over by Strunk and Lee.

What is a jackknife?

200

The name of Tim O'Brien's fictional daughter.

Who is Kathleen?

200

Two techniques used in a graphic novel to show that something is wrong with the universe.

What is canted angle and/or bleed?

300
Anything in the shot that the character does not directly interact with, but that contributes to the story.

What is mise-en-scene?

300

The technique O'Brien employs to show Azar's brutality when he kills the baby water buffalo.

What is symbolism?

300

The name of the comic WITHIN the comic of Maus (the one that shows Art’s mother’s death)?

What is The Prisoner from Hell Planet?

300

The name of the company Blake and Schofield were tasked to find.

What is The Second Devons?

300

The technique used to explore the background story of The Joker.

What is flashback?

400

The technique used to give the impression that 1917 was filmed all in "one take".

What is Editing?

400

Used to seperate out individual traits and features of each character.

What is characterisation?

400

The name of the shinigami in Death Note.

What is Ryuk?

400

Henry Dobbins kept these around his neck for luck.

What is his girlfriend's stockings?

400

Using the weather to convey mood or emotion in a visual text.

What is Pathetic Fallacy?

500
The gradual loss of this is used to symbolise Schofield's increasing desperation in 1917.

What is costume?

500

The kind of narrator Tim O'Brien uses as he writes in a blend of fact and fiction.

What is an unreliable narrator?


(will accept first person narrator)

500

What a true war story never is.

What is moral?

500

The career that he was trying to find success in before he became The Joker.

What is a stand-up comedian?

500

A comic book page that is mostly or entirely taken up by a single image or panel.

What is a splash page?

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