Understanding Comics Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.

Understanding Comics Test | Mid-Book Test - Hard

This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 107 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
Buy the Understanding Comics Lesson Plans
Name: _________________________ Period: ___________________

This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Closure in comics fosters an intimacy between ________________________.

2. Which artist started the trend to incorporate photographic streaking to depict motion?

3. Who first observed that people growing up in the late 20th century wanted roles more than goals?

4. Who created "A Harlot's Progress," published in 1731?

5. In a single image, what can you use to add words without introducing time?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is McCloud's notion of the Picture Plane?

2. Give examples of the three different types of icons.

3. For what do Japanese mainstream comics use aspect-to-aspect transitions?

4. What are different ways to portray motion within panels?

5. Describe what cartooning style is.

6. According to McCloud, are comics a hybrid of graphic arts and prose fiction?

7. How are faces and figures typically drawn in comics? What about backgrounds and landscapes?

8. Is a single image equivalent to a single instant in time?

9. How do people commit closure in electronic media such as a a film?

10. What are the three most popular transitions in mainstream Western comics and why?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Art can be thought of as any human activity that doesn't grow out of either basic instinct of survival and reproduction. Do you think this is a good definition of art? Can you think of how art could be motivated by survival or reproduction?

Essay Topic 2

McCloud notes that "We see ourselves in everything. We assign identities and emotions where none exist. And we make the world over in our image." Personification is a literary device that demonstrates McCloud's statement. Think of a time where you personified an inanimate object or abstract notion. What was it? What human attributes did you give to it?

Essay Topic 3

Eastern and Western approaches to art differ. In graphic arts, for example, Western art often focuses attention to foreground objects only while Eastern art emphasizes both the foreground and the background of negative space. Argue the merits of shortcomings of each approach.

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 832 words
(approx. 3 pages at 300 words per page)
Buy the Understanding Comics Lesson Plans
Copyrights
BookRags
Understanding Comics from BookRags. (c)2025 BookRags, Inc. All rights reserved.