How to Read a Graphic Novel or Comic Strip: Part 2 (Shots and Angles)

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By The Edge Learning Center In my last blog, I broke down some of the structural elements of a graphic novel so that we had the vocabulary to talk about how a graphic novel’s stylistic choices can create a particular effect. This is really important for those IB students who have been assigned graphic novels such […]

How to Read a Graphic Novel or Comic Strip: Part 1

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If you are taking IB English, you may have noticed that comic strips sometimes show up on the Paper 1 exams and graphic novels are sometimes assigned to us for Paper 2. The purpose of this blog is to provide novice readers with a basic understanding of how to approach a page from a graphic novel and to give more experienced readers of comics a greater appreciation of the various features of the medium.

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