The Ravine: Character

The Ravine: Characters

Introduction to Stories: Like real people, characters have personalities, drive, and life-changing events. To describe characters in terms of how they appear in stories, you can use these terms:

Describing characters

• Character Traits are the qualities shown by a character, such as physical traits or expressions of personality. Give an example of each:

• Character Motivation is the reason or reasons a character acts, feels, or thinks in a certain way.

• Character Development is how a character changes throughout a story.

Multiple Choice

In "The Ravine" who is the main character?

• Starlene

• Joe- boy

• Vinny

• Mo

Multiple Choice

VOCABULARY REVIEW: something that has many knots and bumpy areas on its surface

• rivulet

• gnarly

• precipice

• dialect

Multiple Choice

a small brook or stream

• rivulet

• creek

• pond

• ravine

Multiple Choice

BONUS: a form of language spoken in a specific place by a particular group of people

• language

• dialect

• dialogue