Horror Terms
Graphic Novel Terms
Psychoanalysis
Blackwater Characters
Other Vocab
100

The emotion horror typically tries to cause in a reader or viewer

What is fear?

100

The white space between panels

What is a gutter?

100

The person who came up with behaviorist theory, which is used in schools

Who is Skinner?

100

The main character who does track

Who is Tony?

100

Crawling low to the ground

What is to creep?
200
When something is spooky or ghostly

What is eerie?

200

A frame with an image and, usually, some text

What is a panel?

200
A person who experimented on dogs

Who is Pavlov?

200

The main character who is sick

Who is Eli?

200

Intending to do bad things/evil

What is malevolent?

300

The vocabulary term for building tension

What is suspense?

300

A row of panels, or a single row with a long panel

What is a tier?

300

The person who came up with the theory of defense mechanisms

Who is Freud

300
The antagonist who is mean to Eli

Who is Biff?

300

A large, usually stone/concrete, building that holds tombs

What is a mausoleum?

400

The word for what "horror" "action" and "adventure" are all called

What is genre?

400

Two pages with a lot of panels and images in a graphic novel

What is a spread?

400

A common defense mechanism where a person refuses to admit something

What is denial?

400

The supporting character who tries to help Tony be less stuck in gender roles

Who is Marcia?

400

The act of analyzing the psychological state of a person

What is psychoanalysis?

500

When a horror story helps a viewer/reader to feel separate from their own life

What is unrealism?

500

Words or phrases that imply a specific sound that an object or person makes

What is onomatopoeia?

500

A defense mechanism where someone projects their feelings onto an object

What is displacement?

500

A character who Tony misses but does not show up in the book

Who is Tony's mom?

500
Characterized by being extremely thin or skeletal

What is gaunt?