Characterization Review

What is characterization?

• a character playing a role in the novel

• the process by which the personality of the character is revealed

• the moral or lesson of the story

• the perspective from which the story is told

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What are the types of characterization? Check ALL that apply.

• inference

• optional

• direct

• indirect

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Characterization is always directly stated in the novel.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Sometimes we have to make an inference about the character's personality.

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

All of the following are ways we indirectly characterize people EXCEPT which one?

• What characters say.

• What characters do and their effect on others.

• What characters look like.

• The character's name.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What is the acronym (set of letters) used to explain indirect characterization? These letters each stand for a word.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3