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Perspective
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Miscellaneous
100
This angle increases the sense of realism and puts us on the same level as the characters.
What is eye-level?
100
A row of pictures.
What is a strip?
100
Name for the circle around the words spoken by a character.
What is a speech balloon?
100
The term used for the looks and clothing of a character.
What is visual design?
100
The term used when we only see a part of something.
What is closure?
200
In this angle the 'camera' is near to the ground.
What is worm's eye view?
200
Another word for frames.
What is panels?
200
This type of narration is a more indirect way of getting to know the characters.
What is dialogue?
200
What graphic novels often employ in order to "amplify through simplicity".
What is stereotypes?
200
The title of Art Spiegelman's holocaust story.
What is Maus?
300
This angle makes the characters look smaller and less powerful.
What is bird's eye view?
300
This term is used about panels which are similar or correspond.
What is rhyming panels?
300
'Wham', 'bang' & 'kapow'.
What is onomatopoeia? (words that produce the sound which they refer to)
300
Sometimes less is more. This term is used when a face is less detailed and less realistic in order to allow identification more easily.
What is abstraction?
300
A visual detail which is not immediately visible but appears when you look closely.
What is an Easter egg?
400
The term for the shot used when the author wants to give you information about the context.
What is long shot?
400
A panel without any words.
What is a silent panel/a mute?
400
What is used to show motion in a static medium like graphic novel.
What is motion lines/zip ribbons?
400
Colour the protagonist, an architect, is drawn in in Mazzuchelli's graphic novel about a cold, purely rational man completely obsessed with his job.
What is blue?
400
Traditional superhero stories with lots of action are often depicted in this colour category.
What is primary colours?
500
A close-up which captures emotions and/or puts emphasis on specific elements.
What is zoom?
500
Another word for 4th wall break.
What is a bleed?
500
Term for the place where we get the voice of the narrator.
What is caption box?
500
This is often more important than the text because this may add to, define or even contradict the words on the page.
What is body language?
500
The title of the graphic story on pages 12-13 by Mårdøn Smet from 2015.
What is Alone?