Characterization Practice

What strategies are used with Indirect Characterization?

• Looks of the character

• Direct description of personality of character

• Actions of the character

• Speech of the character

• Thoughts & Feelings of the character

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The author shows the reader about a character's personality

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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Which words mean: A writer suggests information through a character's thoughts, words, and actions as well as what other characters say and think about the character?

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• character traits

• character motives

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Pete was a little strange - into sci-fi and comic books, but he was mature for his age and knowledgeable about many things.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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She was short with dark, black hair that had pink sections on either side of her face. She wore dark skinny jeans tucked into military style boots.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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The author tells the reader about a character's personality

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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Mary looked away and shifted her feet when her father asked where the money went.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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The dog was vicious and couldn't be trusted around children.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

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What can you infer about this character? Whenever anyone tries to speak to Dee, she says, "You don't know me," rolls her eyes, and walks away.

• Dee is very friendly.

• Dee is rude and thinks she is better than everyone else.

• Dee has an eye problem.

• Dee has a lot of friends.

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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

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

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