The curse that haunts most of the characters in the novel.
What is the fuku?
100
The type of book Fun Home is.
What is a graphic memoir?
100
A primary way of ordering the world, one of the major paradigms we have. How we communicate with each other, which also reveals unstated cultural biases.
What is language?
100
Moments when two or more characters are talking to each other. Usually quotation marks are used (but not always!).
What is dialogue?
100
Something which is used to represent something else. Here are some examples - <3 :) :(
What is an icon?
200
The infamous dictator who is thought to have conjured the fuku for the whole Dominican Republic.
Who is Trujillo?
200
Alison Bechdel is plagued by this as a child, and you can see its effect in her artistic style in the book.
What is OCD?
200
When many people are engaging in a discussion and several different opinions are offered and considered.
What is polylogue?
200
The perspective from which we are told a story.
What is point of view.
200
An iconic drawing will be this.
What is subjective, universal, or identifiable?
300
The legacy that seems to haunt Oscar and his family, affecting their lives often in negative ways.
What is the legacy of violence?
300
The way in which Bechdel makes sense of her life and her family. She uses this as a means of connecting to her family and explaining their lives.
What is literature or fiction?
300
A way of looking at literature that takes into account the time when the piece was written as well as author's biography and intent.
What is historicism?
300
The underlying meaning of a piece of literature.
What is theme.
300
The space between panels.
What is the gutter?
400
These two specters haunt the novel, appearing when characters face death.
What is the man without a face and the mongoose.
400
This causes Bruce Bechdel to become unhappy, working to craft perfect facsimiles of life instead of actually engaging with his life.
What is (sexual) repression?
400
All hands on deck is an example.
What is synecdoche?
400
A story which jumps from one moment to the next and does not move from the beginning to the end in strict chronological order.
What is nonlinear narrative style?
400
This is what allows us to see two panels and understand the action that has occurred within them.
What is closure?
500
Three major themes of the novel.
What are family, gender, violence, literature, writing, history, love, sexuality, alienation, hope - name at least three of these.
500
Three main themes from Fun Home.
What are repression, identity, sexuality, literature, truth, alienation, authenticity, family, gender, and hope.
500
Irony, disillusionment, and a possible ricorso characterize this stage.
What is stage four of Vico's four stages?
500
What we know about the characters and how we know it.
What is characterization?
500
The action that occurs when we read words and the action that takes place when we look at pictures.