Closure
A phenomenon where a person observes the parts of something to perceive the whole thing.
What is closure?
The space between panels in a graphic novel.
What are gutters?
A slight difference between panels that requires very little closure.
What is a moment-to-moment transition?
A way of interpreting something.
What is a perception?
A conclusion about something with no proof, the author makes one about the readers involving closure.
What is an assumption?
Pictures and drawings that illustrate scenes in a graphic novel.
What are panels?
A transition that focuses on actions that a character does there are more bold movements, but the author still guides the reader through what to interpret and understand.
What is an action-to-action transition?
A situation in which a difficult choice has to be made between two or more alternatives, especially equally undesirable ones.
What is a dilemma?
The ability to form new ideas or concepts of external objects that are not actually there
What is imagination?
One represents what a character is thinking, while the other represents what the character is physically saying.
What is the difference between a thought bubble and a speech bubble?
A transition that sets a wandering eye on different aspects of a place, idea, or mood.
What is an aspect-to-aspect transition?
The ability to do something that frightens you.
What is courage?
Hints that the author gives to the reader to help them perceive what is going on.
A box at the top or bottom of a frame that provides scene setting, description, or narration.
What is a caption?
Focuses on subjects in the story through panels, and has more of a time difference between panels.
What is a subject-to-subject transition?
The novel that the class read in their perseverance unit about a girl during WW2
What is The Book Thief?
Closure helps readers perceive and understand what goes on in between the panels. Without this, graphic novels would be very tedious and dull.
Why does closure matter?
The reader‘s perceptions of what happens in between the panels.
What is blood in the gutter?
A transition that offers no logical relationship between panels.
What is a non-sequitur transition?
Resilience in doing something despite difficulty or delay in being successful.
What is perseverance?