Graphic Novels
The space between panels.
What is a gutter?
The main character of the text.
What / who is Marjane?
The historical and cultural factors that affect how a text is interpreted by a reader / viewer.
What is context of reception?
The explanation of the effect a word / phrase has on describing the text or developing a theme.
What is connotation?
A word that names something, such as a person, place, thing, or idea.
What is a noun?
When an image runs off a page.
The loss of this family member prompts a breakaway from God.
What / who is Uncle Anoosh?
The main body of text in an advert.
What is advertising copy?
The identification of key words and explaining what they literally mean.
What is denotation?
A word that represents an action.
What is a verb?
The space around and between the subject of an image used to emphasise the subject.
What is negative space?
The main character moves here for safety, away from war. Name the city and the country.
What is Vienna, Austria?
The arrangement of the scenery, props, etc.; the settings or surroundings of an event.
What is MISE-EN-SCÈNE?
Words within a passage of text which are related in some way.
What is a lexical set? / What is a lexical field?
A word that describes a noun.
What is an adjective?
Lines and squiggles coming from a cartoon character or object to indicate any of a variety of states of being.
What is emanata?
Used to distinguishes between men and women, control male sexual desire - also linked to class position.
What is the veil?
An economic and social system that encourages the consumption of goods and services as means of attaining well-being.
What is consumerism?
Descriptive language which appeals to and engages the human senses - can be literal or figurative.
What is imagery?
A word which describes a verb or an adjective.
What is an adverb?
The use of light and dark shades, dark-toned images, or high-contrast images draw the eye.
What is graphic weight?
The first Supreme Leader of Iran.
What / who is Ayatollah Khomeini?
Capitalism has a constant hunger for new markets; as capitalism spreads, so does the alienation experienced by workers.
What is Marxist theory? / What is Karl Marx?
The placement of two or more people, places, ideas or objects side by side, often in order to bring out their differences.
What is juxtaposition?
A word that represents or takes the place of a noun in a sentence.
What is a pronoun?