Analysing "Y - The Last Man"
The "Y" in "Y - T.L.M"
What is the Y-crhomosome? What is the Y in Yorick?
A page that is completely filled out by a single picture
What is a splash-page?
The 3 acts of the 3-act structure
What is Setup, Confrontation and Resolution?
Funny, witty, not to be taken seriously
What is the similarities between Yorick from "Y - T.L.M" & Yorick from "Hamlet"?
Yoricks education
What is English major?
All the men dying
What is Yoricks call to adventure?
Signefies a longer timeframe
What is a long panel?
A plot device to emphasize time slowly ticking in a story
What is a clock?
Distribution of the world picture in “Y - T.L.M”
What is "The great chain of being"?
Youricks furry friend
Who is Ampersand
Yorick making references to other works in “Y - T.L.M”
What is intertextuality?
Signefies shorter moments in time
What is short panels?
A plot device to introduce a seemingly unimportant item that takes a greater significance later on
What is a gun?
The amazons and the republicans fighting to gain the power back from the democrats
What is impending war in "Y - T.L.M"?
What is Yorick´s doing the moment we get presentet to him?
What is hanging upside down?
A symbol of a hero in "Y - T.L.M”
What is Yoricks blue cape?
A detailed view of a person or object, usually without much context provided
What is a Close-Up?
Lawrence Wright’s way to engage a reader through a personal connection by beginning a story with a character and a scene
What is a donkey?
Queen Elizabethian Era compared to ‘’Y - the last man’’
What is having no heir "to the throne"?
The city where to find Doctor Mann
What is Boston?
A phallic symbol in "Y - T.L.M"
What is the memorial tower for the men? (The Washington Monument)
The naming of a thing or action by a vocal imitation of the sound associated with it
What is onomatopoeia?
The idea that all epic stories essentially are written from the same template
What is "monomyth"?
Something both Yoricks sybolize
What is "memento mori"?
The author of "Y - The Last Man"
Who is Stephen King?