Character and Characterization

Positive or negative aspects of a person’s behavior are...

• character analysis

• character traits

• characterization

• character motivation

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A ______________ is any personage in a literary work who acts, appears, or is referred to as playing a part

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Characters may be nonhuman.

• True

• False

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The more ordinary “good guy” is the...

• hero/heroine

• villain

• protagonist

• antagonist

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___________ characters are those who act from varied often conflicting motives, impulses, and desires

• Round

• Flat

• Dynamic

• Static

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_________ are characters that reoccur in myths and literature during different ages and cultures

• round characters

• archetypes characters

• stock characters

• dynamic characters

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________ characterization occurs when the writer tells the reader exactly what the character is like

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The ___________tries to stop the main character from accomplishing his or her goal.

• protagonist

• stock character

• dynamic

• antagonist

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A simple, one - dimensional character is a __________.

• dynamic character

• round character

• flat character

• stock character

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_________ characterization occurs when the writer allows the reader to observe characters and judge for yourself what the characters are like

• direct

• neutral

• indirect

• ineffective

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