ELEMENTS OF LITERATURE (CHARACTER)

What is a Character?

• These are the doers of the actions in the story.

• This is most often called the hero in the story.

• These are one-dimensional that are purely functional in the story.

Below are the types of character. EXCEPT?

• ANTAGONIST

• PROTAGONIST

• PLOT

What is the role of the character in a story?

• It shows the location of the story

• It shows the time of the story

• It possess the actions in the story

Differentiate Antagonist from a Protagonist.

• PROTAGONIST is the Main character in a story while Antagonist is the complicated character in the story

• PROTAGONIST is most often called the hero in the story while the ANTAGONIST is most often called the villain in the story.

Differentiate Round character from a Flat character.

• FLAT CHARACTER is a character who embodies a single quality and who does not develop in the course of a story while the ROUND CHARACTER are more complex characters and drawn in more detail by the writer.

• ROUND CHARACTER is the main character in a story while the FLAT CHARACTER has a force conflict with the main character.