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Tuesday, January 18, 2011
Graphic Novel -- tone
Graphic novels use a lot of dialogue inside dialogue bubbles, but they do not use dialogue tags because you know who is speaking based on whose mouth the bubble is attached to. Therefore, without a dialogue tag, the author cannot write that the person is speaking loudly or softly or anxiously or happily or angrily or intensely. The TONE of the characters' words are not written -- you have to infer this on your own. You should still be able to infer the tone of the dialogue, which is HOW the speaker is speaking based on not only the image, but also the context of the story.
Write about AT LEAST one example of tone in your graphic novel. How do you know this tone exists? In other words, how do you know what the speaker's emotion is when they are talking? BE SPECIFIC AND USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES!!!!
Write about AT LEAST one example of tone in your graphic novel. How do you know this tone exists? In other words, how do you know what the speaker's emotion is when they are talking? BE SPECIFIC AND USE SPECIFIC EXAMPLES!!!!
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