Characterization

Match

Match the following

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person omniscient

I, me, my, mine

you, your, yours

Follows a character, but not in mind

Follows multiple characters

• I, me, my, mine

• you, your, yours

• Follows a character, but not in mind

• Follows multiple characters

Multiple Choice

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.

• Direct characterization

• Indirect characterization

Multiple Choice

Looking up, there he was – Mr. Ramsay – advancing towards them, swinging, careless, oblivious, remote. A bit of a hypocrite? she repeated. Oh no – the most sincere of men, the truest (here he was), the best; but, looking down, she thought, he is absorbed in himself, he is tyrannical, he is unjust…

• Direct characterization

• Indirect characterization

Multiple Choice

Direct characterization is:

• when you characterize a director

• when you infer what a character is like through their actions, thoughts, and words

• when the author specifically says what a character is like

• when you give a full profile directly of a character

Open Ended

Give your own examples of a round character:

Open Ended

Give your own examples of a flat character:

Multiple Choice

A static character

• Is well thought out

• Doesn't really change

• Has 1-2 characteristics

• Makes a significant change

Multiple Choice

Static characters are always flat characters too

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Flat characters are usually static

• True

• False

Poll

Was Elena in "American History" a static or dynamic character?

• Static

• Dynamic