Graphic Novel Vocabulary

This is text that contains information about a scene or character.

• frame

• caption

• speech bubble

• thought bubble

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

This is text that contains communication among characters.

• panel

• caption

• speech bubble

• thought bubble

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

The purpose of the gutters is to

• show what the characters are thinking.

• slow the reader down.

• confuse the reader.

• show passage of time.

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

draws the comic based off of the script

• writer

• penciler

• emanata

• bleed

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

contain information about a scene or character

• captions

• thought ballooons

• dialogue word balloons

• frame

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

lines or boxes around a panel(s)

• frame

• sound effect

• captions

• border

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

contain characters' verbal communication between each other

• captions

• thought balloons

• dialogue word balloon

• emanata

Tags

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

CCSS.L.7.6

images that run outside the border of the panel

• gutters

• frame

• penciler

• bleed

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.11-12.4

contains what a character is thinking

• captions

• dialogue word balloons

• thought balloons

• caption

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.4C

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

describes the way some images draw the eye more than others, creating a definite focus using color and shading in various ways

• emanata

• bleed

• graphic weight

• penciler

Tags

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.9-10.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RI.6.4