Vocab
Definition: a state involving beliefs and feelings that causes a person to think or act in a certain way. Ex: “Are you kidding? You got the boot for his bad _______________?”
attitude
Evidence directly stated in the text is called:
Explicit evidence
When Nimona tells Lord Blackheart about her plan, he says: "You can't just go around murdering people. There are RULES, Nimona." To which Nimona replies: "What do you mean, rules? Why would you follow the rules? Isn't that the point of being a _________________? That you don't follow rules?"
villain
What is the difference between a comic book and a graphic novel?
Unlike comics, which are usually ongoing serial stories similar to long-running TV shows — most graphic novels tell a single story from start to finish with a beginning, middle and end.
Definition: complete; totally Ex: “I knocked him ______ off his horse.”
clean
True or False? Inferences can support an analysis as powerfully as explicitly stated evidence.
True
Nimona asks Lord Blackheart: "Can I at least kill Sir Goldenloin? The one guy who keeps messing up your plans?," to which Lord Blackheart replies: "No. If anyone's going to kill him... it's going to be me." We can infer, like the fictional student in our StudySync Model document does, that:
Sir Goldlenloin and Sir Blackheart must have a complicated past.
What does Nimona think of Blackheart's synthetic arm?
That it's "pretty cool."
Definition: somewhat changed or altered Ex: “We’ll attack the city using my genetically __________ dragons.”
modified
True or False? All textual evidence can be weighted the same. It's all equally valid.
False
The two panels that take us from the present into a flashback; how do we know a flashback is coming?
The second panel has Blackheart smiling, as opposed to his frown in the first panel; The second panel is clearly in the daytime, perhaps at sunrise, when things were hopeful, as opposed to the darkness in first panel; No beard and earring in the second panel implies that Blackheart is younger in this panel and therefore part of a flashback.
What does Nimona want to do in her plan that Blackheart opposes?
She wants to kill both the King and Sir Goldenloin.
Definition: exagerrating the special importance or prominence of something Ex: Then we’ll fly off with the king, detonating the tower behind us for ___________.
emphasis
To QUOTE as evidence to support a response is to:
to cite
What does Nimona want to do in her plan that Blackheart opposes?
Killing both the king and Goldenloin. He doens't want her to kill anybody.
What does this excerpt explore in terms heroes and villains and what does it tell us about Blackheart?
The nature of villains, which shows us, that since Blackheart doesn't want to kill anybody, he may be a hero.
Definition: (verb) To be put into opposition or competition. Ex: We’d never been __________________ against each other before.
pitted
To use your understanding of a text and your own experiences to draw conclusions is to:
Blackheart wants to attack the city using his what?
genetically modified dragons
What type of book is "Nimona?" What genre?
A Fantasy Graphic Novel