Final Assessment Study Guide LA

Direct Characterization

• making direct statements about a character’s personality and tells what the character is like. (TELLS)

• Information which is revealed through the character’s thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him/her. (SHOWS)

Indirect Characterization

• making direct statements about a character’s personality and tells what the character is like. (TELLS)

• Information which is revealed through the character’s thoughts, words, and actions, along with how other characters respond to that character, including what they think and say about him/her. (SHOWS)

Flat Character

• a literary character whose personality can be defined by one to a few traits, considered two-dimensional in that he or she is relatively uncomplicated

• a complex literary character whose personality, background, motives and other features are fully developed by the author

• a literary character who undergoes little or no inner change and whose character does not grow or develop

• a literary character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude, within the development of the literary work

Round Character

• a literary character whose personality can be defined by one to a few traits, considered two-dimensional in that he or she is relatively uncomplicated

• a complex literary character whose personality, background, motives and other features are fully developed by the author

• a literary character who undergoes little or no inner change and whose character does not grow or develop

• a literary character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude, within the development of the literary work

Static Character

• a literary character whose personality can be defined by one to a few traits, considered two-dimensional in that he or she is relatively uncomplicated

• a complex literary character whose personality, background, motives and other features are fully developed by the author

• a literary character who undergoes little or no inner change and whose character does not grow or develop

• a literary character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude, within the development of the literary work

Dynamic Character

• a literary character whose personality can be defined by one to a few traits, considered two-dimensional in that he or she is relatively uncomplicated

• a complex literary character whose personality, background, motives and other features are fully developed by the author

• a literary character who undergoes little or no inner change and whose character does not grow or develop

• a literary character who undergoes an important inner change, as a change in personality or attitude, within the development of the literary work

Situational Irony

• the opposite event of what you expect to happen then happens

• the speaker’s words are the opposite of what he/she means (sarcasm)

• the reader/audience knows something the characters don’t know

Verbal Irony

• the opposite event of what you expect to happen then happens

• the speaker’s words are the opposite of what he/she means (sarcasm)

• the reader/audience knows something the characters don’t know

Dramatic Irony

• the opposite event of what you expect to happen then happens

• the speaker’s words are the opposite of what he/she means (sarcasm)

• the reader/audience knows something the characters don’t know

What is a subplot?

• A story in story which contains a problem/conflict and a resolution

• A part of the story that the author added after the rough draft was completed.

• A deeper meaning in the story.