Graphic Novel Elements

This is often a large space that helps provide additional subtextual information to the reader

• Gutter

• Panel
  

• Background

• Midground

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Which element in a graphic novel is used to convey dialogue or thoughts of characters?

• Background

• Gutter

• Speech Bubble

• Panel

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What is the term for the space between panels in a graphic novel?

• Frame

• Margin

• Border

• Gutter

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Which part of a graphic novel page is typically used to establish the setting or mood?

• Panel

• Foreground

• Background

• Midground

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This is part of the comic that tells about the story but isn't dialogue

• Word Balloon

• Caption Box

• Thought Bubble

• Sound Effect

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Some may be blank and expressionless, some may have details, and others may be representations of large groups.

• Faces

• Hands and Feet

• Bleed

• Foreground

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An image that extends to and or beyond the edge of a page:

• Midground

• Bleed

• Frame

• Gutter

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How the graphic novelist captures the mood of the piece

• Frame

• Faces

• Shading and coloring

• Layout

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Font size, color, and shape/ The darkness and lightness of shading of colors all describe this:

• Midground

• Background

• Foreground

• Graphic Weight

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This is part of the comic that tells about the story but isn't dialogue

• Word Balloon

• Caption Box

• Thought Bubble

• Sound Effect

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