Literary Terms 11-19 TEST Review

When the author specifically reveals traits about the character in a direct, straightforward manner

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

When the author shows traits through that character's actions, speech, thoughts, appearance, and how other characters react to them

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

The central message or lesson of a text

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

• theme

• third person omniscient

Told from the point of view of a character

• first person POV

• second person POV

• third person objective POV

• third person omniscient POV

The narrator talks to the reader

• first person POV

• second person POV

• third person limited POV

• third person objective POV

Narrator shares thoughts and feelings of ONE character

• second person POV

• third person limited POV

• third person objective POV

• third person omniscient POV

Narrator shares thoughts and feelings of ALL the characters

• first person POV

• third person limited POV

• third person omniscient POV

• third person objective POV

Narrator shares facts only (no thoughts or feelings)

• first person POV

• third person limited POV

• third person omniscient POV

• third person objective POV

Behind you the module burns.

Before you . . .

Cold. Unimaginable, bone-chilling cold. The sun so small, so far away. The land and the sky bleached of color, drained to faint red or blue tints on varied shades of gray.

You shiver in your vacuum armor. The forced landing has jarred its systems.

• first person POV

• second person POV

• third person objective POV

• third person omniscient POV

Jonas went to his own desk and began to sort through his school papers for the evening's assignment. But his mind was still on December and the coming Ceremony. Though he had been reassured by the talk with his parents, he hadn't the slightest idea what Assignment the Elders would be selecting for his future, or how he might feel about it when the day came.

From Lois Lowry, The Giver. Copyright 1993 by Lois Lowry

• First person POV

• Third person limited POV

• Third person objective POV

• Third person omniscient POV