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WorksheetsUnit 1&2 (Story Elements) Review
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 30mins
What type of characterization is shown:
While in the lunch room, Mr. Nuismer thought to himself, "Wow, Mr. Haskin must have polished his head this morning because it is so shiny it might blind a student."
Physical Appearance
Thoughts, Speech, and Actions
Other Characters Reactions
Narrator's Comments
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.
What do you know about Jack from this sentence?
Jack looked at his sister with a strange look on his face after she put ketchup in her milk.
Jack thinks his sister is making a good choice.
Jack thinks his sister is weird for using ketchup in her milk.
Jack doesn't care what his sister does.
Is this direct or indirect characterization?
Jack looked at his sister with a strange look on his face after she put ketchup in her milk.
direct
indirect
Once upon a time there was a beautiful young girl named Cinderella. Cinderella lives with her evil stepmother and stepsisters who force her to clean day and night. After many harrowing adventures Cinderella meets her prince charming and lives happily ever after.
Direct
Indirect
The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as best as I could; but when he ventured upon insult, I vowed revenge. (Edgar Allan Poe, "The Cask of Amontillado")
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy would have supposed her born to be a heroine.
(Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey)
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
As Mr. John Oakhurst, gambler, stepped into the main street of Poker Flat on the morning of the 23rd of November, 1850, he was conscious of a change in its moral atmosphere since the preceding night.
(Bret Harte, "The Outcasts of Poker Flat")
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show.
(Charles Dickens, David Copperfield)
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
The schoolmaster was leaving the village, and everybody seemed sorry.
(Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure)
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
He was a skinny, black-haired, bespectacled boy who had the pinched, slightly unhealthy look of someone who has grown a lot in a short space of time.
(J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix )
First Person
Third Person Limited
Third Person Omniscient
Second Person
