Elements of a Story/Stylistic Choices
Non-linear storytelling in which character remembers events from the past
What is flashback?
A text type that includes characters that appear to be drawn by hand as well as words
What is a comic/cartoon/graphic novel?
A single box that has images and often language
What is a panel?
Type of fiction that is based on true events
What is metafiction?
The main claim of an essay, often written in 1 or 2 sentences at the end of the introductory paragraph
What is a thesis statement?
Narrator who knows everything, including what characters are thinking
What is omniscient narrator?
A book that is fictional, often contains chapters, and has stories about people
What is a novel?
Nonsensical lines and squiggles that appear around a character or object in a comic or graphic novel
What is emanata?
A narrator of a story who readers are not always sure is telling the whole truth (or whose memories are limited)
What is an "unreliable narrator"?
What is a compare contrast essay?
Two characters whose characteristics seem almost the opposite of each other--often used to highlight differences in one of the characters
What is a "foil"?
This novel read during Year 1 is both a graphic novel and a memoir
What is Persepolis?
Narrator's words at the bottom or top of a panel in a comic or graphic novel
What is caption?
A type of autobiography that generally focuses on a limited period of a writer's life
What is a memoir?
Should form the bulk of a body paragraph in an analytical essay
What is reasoning/commentary/analysis? (The essay writer's own ideas.)
Two things being seen or placed close together with contrasting effect--used in novels, poetry, art
What is juxtaposition?
An article in a newspaper or magazine that IS biased and presents a point of view on an issue
What is an Op-Ed?
An entire page devoted to a single scene in a graphic novel
What is a splash page?
What is "story-truth" vs. "happening-truth"?
Criterion C in Paper 1 and Paper 2
What is organization/coherence/focus/development?
When the writer tries to reproduce the unceasing, sometimes disconnected flow of thoughts in a character's mind
What is "stream of consciousness"?
A letter or advertisement that seeks to raise money for a cause
What is an appeal?
Space between panels that indicates that passing of time
What is "gutter"?
A genre that is based on a made-up world that seems bleak and miserable
What is dystopian fiction?
Examples from the text being analyzed that support the writer's claims
What is evidence?