FUN HOME Revision

We refer to the AUTHOR of FUN HOME as,

• Alice Beechdale

• Ally Bickham

• Alison Bechdel

• Allisyn Beckdale

Answer explanation

Do remember to spell the author's name correctly!

We distinguish the narrator (and protagonist) from the author by referring to her as,

• Alison Bechdel

• Alison

• Ally

• The kid

Answer explanation

Alison Bechdel is the author of the text and Alison is the protagonist and narrator of the story. Even though it is a memoir, the character must be distinguished from the author,

The protagonist of FUN HOME illustrated within the frames can be distinguished from the narrator because,

• She is a different person

• She is a drawing

• She is a representation of the narrator when she was younger

• She is not the same person

Answer explanation

The narrator is telling the story in retrospect. The images represent Alison as events occur, so you may like to distinguish between narrator Alison, who is mature, and child Alison.

The white space between frames is called,

• The gutter

• The margin

• The white line

• Dead space

Answer explanation

When reading, your mind either consciously or subconsciously fills in the action between frames.

We refer to the individual images within frames on the page as,

• Panels

• Boxes

• Squares

• Rectangles

Answer explanation

Pages are divided into multiple frames called panels. Each

panel represents a single moment in time. Panels are read

sequentially from left to right, top to bottom.

A large panel that stretches from left to right across the page is called a,

• Dash

• Splash

• Smash

• Crash

The manipulation of space in graphic novels is called,

• Spatial liminality

• Space jump

• Space shift

• Spatial mechanics

Answer explanation

Panels can move quickly between different locations with only the gutter to indicate that the location has changed,

The manipulation of

time in graphic novels is called

• Temporality

• Temporal mechanics

• Time travel

• Time shift

Answer explanation

Through arrangements and juxtapositions of panels and

gutters, graphic novelists can do interesting things to time and

space.

TRUE OR FALSE?

You can use film terms such as close up or birds-eye angle when talking about the framing of individual panels.

• True

• False

Answer explanation

The composition of individual panels can be analysed in the same way that one might analyse the camera position in a film text or the framing of

a still image, such as a photograph.

Text that tells the story of FUN HOME is presented in the,

• Rectangular boxes

• Speech Bubbles

• Emanata

• captions at the top or bottom of the panel

Answer explanation

You should notice that, in Fun Home, captions present the narration of adult-Alison looking back on her childhood while bubbles present past-Alison, her

friends’ and family’s speech. Often, this juxtaposition creates interesting effects where adult and child Alison present the same ideas – but their use of language is noticeably different.