Comparing Ideas across Genres Answers

Read the excerpts from Does My Head Look Big in This? and Persepolis.Excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This?:When I was in elementary school, different-colored socks were enough to get you teased. So when you're a non–pork-eating, Eid-celebrating Mossie (as in taunting nickname for Muslim, not mosquito) with an unpronounceable last name and a mother who picks you up from school wearing a hijab and Gucci shades and drives a car with an "Islam means peace" bumper sticker, a quiet existence is impossible.Excerpt from Persepolis:

What is the best description of realistic fiction?

Which phrases from the excerpt best support the narrator’s confident tone? Select three options.

What is the relationship between tone and perspective in a narrative text?

Read the excerpt from Does My Head Look Big in This? by Randa Abdel-Fattah.Now the next thing, and it’s really very simple, is that while I’m not going to abandon my fashion sense—you’d better believe I’d never give up my shopping sprees—I’m sick of obsessing about my body, what guys are going to think about my cleavage and calves and shoulder-to-hip ratio. And for the love of everything that is good and holy I am really sick of worrying what people are going to think if I put on a few pounds or have a pimple. I mean, homeroom on Monday morning can be such a stress attack.

How are the narrators’ perspectives similar? Select three options.

What is the white space between and around panels in a graphic novel?

Read the excerpt from Persepolis.Which element best illustrates the central idea of these panels?

Which statements describe both graphic novels and comic books? Select three options.

What do the tone and perspective of these excerpts reveal about the narrators’ attitudes toward being different? Select three options.