Unit 3

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"Turning her head slowly, like a patient becoming paralyzed, neck stiffening forever, she forced her eyes to search among the photographs."
_{-The Face on the Milk Carton by Caroline B. Cooney}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

_{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I was relieved, but I also felt like a weenie."
_{-Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

^{Direct or Indirect Characterization?}
"I'm feeling apprehensive,' he confessed, glad that the appropriate descriptive word had finally come to him."
_{-The Giver by Lois Lowry}

• Direct Characterization
• Indirect Characterization

What acronym did we learn to remember the indirect ways an author can tell us about a character?

• STEAL
• FACE
• LONG
• READ

What does the "E" in STEAL stand for? 

• Everything
• Explain in detail
• Effect on others

Which STEAL am I using to describe a character as a bully
Every time Jimmy walked down the hallway the other kids were sure to move aside and hold their books a little tighter for fear that Jimmy would knock them out of their hands. No one ever dared look Jimmy in the eye as he came their way. 

• Speech
• Thoughts
• Effect On Others
• Actions

Craig plays football and shows up at practice every day an hour early to begin his training.

What character trait describes Craig?

• tired

• fast

• hard-working

• early bird

What is characterization?

• Character traits

• What a character says and thinks

• The process in which the author tells the personality of a character.

• What a character looks like and what are his actions

What is indirect characterization?

• The process by which the narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

• The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.

What is direct characterization?

• The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.

• The process by which the narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is.