Character and Characterization

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

• character analysis

• character traits

• characterization

• character motivation

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

Characters may be nonhuman.

• True

• False

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

• hero/heroine

• villain

• protagonist

• antagonist

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

• Round

• Flat

• Dynamic

• Static

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

• round characters

• archetypes characters

• stock characters

• dynamic characters

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

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

• protagonist

• stock character

• dynamic

• antagonist

A simple, one - dimensional character is a __________.

• dynamic character

• round character

• flat character

• stock character

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

• direct

• neutral

• indirect

• ineffective