Characterization Flashcard

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What tells the audience what the personality of the character is?

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Direct Characterization

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The author’s underlying message about life or human nature.

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Theme

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Reality contradicts reader’s or character’s expectations.

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Situational Irony

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The feeling, emotion or atmosphere that a writer creates for the reader.

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Mood

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What reveals the personality of a character?

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Indirect Characterization

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The reader or another character knows something a character does not.

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Dramatic Irony

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A contradiction between what a character says and means.

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Verbal Irony

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Indicates the author’s attitude or feelings toward what he/she has written or the subject/topic of the text. Options: Indirect Characterization, Mood, Tone, Direct Characterization

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Tone

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An image with another level of meaning.

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Symbol

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The time and place of the action in a text.

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Setting