Lit Terms review

Reader must find out about a character through his/her thoughts, words, and actions

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Flat Character

• Round Character

POV narrator can only see into one character's mind

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person limited

• 3rd person objective

hint of something that has not happened but will

• mood

• tone

• flashback

• foreshadowing

POV where narrator is part of the story

• 1st person

• 2nd person

• 3rd person omniscient

• 3rd person objective

author tells reader what the character is like

• Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization

• Flat Character

• Round Character

reference to another person. place, event, work or art

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• allusion

• mood

look into the past to learn about a character

• foreshadowing

• flashback

• tone

• allusion

means one thing, stands for something else

• direct characterization

• allusion

• symbol

• indirect characterization

one thing is said but something else is meant (sarcasm)

• verbal irony

• situational irony

• mood

• tone

reader sees only one side of the character's personality

• round character

• direct characterization

• flat character

• indirect characterization