8th Grade ELA Terms Review

a character or force in conflict with the main character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• dynamic character

• round character

The character is revealed through their personality, appearance, words, actions, and effect on others.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Dynamic Characterization

• Static Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.W.8.3B

the author tells the audience what the personality of the character is. Example: "The patient boy and quiet girl were both well mannered and did not disobey their mother.”

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

• Dynamic Characterization

• Static Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

• Denouement

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Ending

A character who demonstrates some complexity and who develops or changes in the course of a work.

• Flat Character

• Round Character

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

a literary or dramatic character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude.

• Dynamic Character

• Static Character

• Round Character

• Flat Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.2

CCSS.RL.8.3

A character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story.

• Flat Character

• Dynamic Character

• Round Character

• Secondary Character

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.9

a literary or dramatic character who undergoes little or no inner change; a character who does not grow or develop.

• Dynamic Character

• Secondary Character

• Round Character

• Static Character

INCIDENTS are ...

• character traits

• details

• unimportant

• events

Tags

CCSS.RL.8.3

ASPECTS are ...

• traits

• chemicals

• nouns and verbs

• opinions

Tags

CCSS.L.8.4A

CCSS.RI.8.4