AP Literature Characterization Review

My confidence about characterization is

• I could teach a class on it

• Pretty confident

• I have a question or two

• What is characterization?

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

Struggle between opposing forces.

• contrast

• connotation

• consonance

• conflict

When a character has a sudden change and/or insight

• epiphany

• antagonist

• bildungsroman

• protagonist

How a character sees and experiences their individual circumstances

• personality

• perspective

• plot

• passive voice

In direct characterization the author tells the reader what to think

• true

• false

In indirect characterization, the author tells the reader what to think

• true

• false

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

All of these are examples of Point of View EXCEPT

• 1st person

• 1st person limited

• 3rd Person limited

• 3rd Person omniscient

Tags

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

The perspective of a character is

• How others feel about them

• How they feel about themselves

• How they feel about a situation

• How society views them

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

What is the difference between point of view and perspective?

• point of view refers to the format the author has chosen for the narration (who is speaking), whereas perspective refers to the worldview of a character (how she is feeling and thinking).

• perspective refers to the format the author has chosen for the narration (who is speaking), whereas point of view refers to the worldview of a character (how she is feeling and thinking).

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.6.3