Characterization Review with All Summer

Characterization Review

By Kali Burks

• "Vehicle" on the Story Map

• Interacts with conflict

• Connection to audience

Story Element: Characters

In what ways are characters important to a story?

The author will show you details about a character by describing how they act and react in a story.

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Indirect Characterization

The author SHOWS you details about the characters while the plot progresses.

Keeps the story going
BUT
We have to INFER the characters personality.

Indirect Characterization

The author TELLS you about a character.

Adds details to the character
BUT
Plot has to pause for this information.

Direct Characterization

Characterization

The next slide is a question! Get ready!

She was a very frail girl who looked as if she had been lost in the rain for years and the rain had washed out the blue from her eyes and the red from her mouth and the yellow from her hair. She was an old photograph dusted from an album, whitened away, and if she spoke at all her voice would be a ghost.

What kind of clue did the author leave? What does it tell us?

Multiple Choice

The text was an example of what type of indirect characterization?

• Words

• Actions

• Looks

• Thoughts

Open Ended

What do we learn about Margot from this clue? Answer in complete sentences and your OWN words.

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“Speak when you’re spoken to.” He gave her a shove. But she did not move; rather she let herself be moved only by him and nothing else.

They edged away from her; they would not look at her. She felt them go away. And this was because she would play no games with them in the echoing tunnels of the underground city. If they tagged her and ran, she stood blinking after them and did not follow.

What kind of clue did the author leave? What does it tell us?

Multiple Choice

The text was an example of what type of indirect characterization?

• Thoughts

• Effects

• Reactions

• Words

Match

Match the quotes to the example of indirect characterization

• I think the sun is a flower.

  That blooms for just one hour.

  That was Margot’s poem, read in a quiet voice in the still classroom while the rain was falling outside.

• And once, a month ago, she had refused to shower in the school shower rooms, had clutched her hands to her ears and over her head, screaming that the water mustn’t touch her head.

• “Get away!” The boy gave her another push. “What’re you waiting for?”

  Then, for the first time, she turned and looked at him. And what she was waiting for was in her eyes.

Words

Actions

Effect

• Words

• Actions

• Effect

Now What?

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