Character Development

Open Ended

How do round characters differ from flat characters in a story?

Multiple Choice

Why is character development considered important in creative writing?

• It helps create memorable stories and relatable characters.

• It makes the story longer.

• It allows the writer to avoid describing settings.

• It ensures all characters are heroes.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is most important when creating a character profile for a short story?

• Knowing the ins and outs of your central character

• Choosing a unique name for your character

• Making your character the same as yourself

• Ignoring the character's background

Open Ended

Explain how using the five senses can help readers imagine a character in a story.

Open Ended

Describe how your character will talk.

Open Ended

How can the setting help define a character in a story?

Open Ended

Where does your character live, work, and play?

Open Ended

How would a person from your character's past describe him or her?

Open Ended

How would your character's parents describe him or her?

Open Ended

What are some ways your character spends their time?

Open Ended

What are your character's vices and virtues?

Open Ended

What gets on your character's nerves?

Open Ended

What is your character afraid of?

Open Ended

What is an event in your character's past that has affected who he or she is today?

Open Ended

What does your character want?

Multiple Choice

Which of the following best describes why a protagonist should change over the course of a story?

• To make the story more engaging and realistic

• To introduce more characters

• To complicate the plot unnecessarily

• To avoid resolving the central conflict

Open Ended

Explain how physical traits and objects can be used to make a character memorable. How will you make your character memorable?