WorksheetsSTEAL Review/Anticipation
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is characterization?
What the world around the character looks like.
How the character's voice sounds.
How the author reveals the personality of characters.
How the author formats the text.
What does the acronym S.T.E.A.L. stand for?
Stick To Each Art Literally
Speech, Thoughts, Effects, Action, Looks
Strength, Target, Expert, Acronym, Library
Strategic Transfer of Equipment to Alternate Locations
What does the letter 'E' stand for in S.T.E.A.L.?
Earnest, how truthful the character is in the presence of others.
Etiquette, how they act in formal company.
Everyman, the character represents the regular person and may stand in for the reader.
Effect on others, the way people feel and behave in reaction to the character.
What is DIRECT characterization?
When the author tells the audience what the personality of the character is.
What the character is wearing.
When the author shows the audience what the personality of the character is.
What is revealed through the character's thoughts and feelings.
What does the letter 'S' stand for in the acronym S.T.E.A.L.?
Spork
Spontaneous
Sing
Speech
What does the letter 'T' stand for in S.T.E.A.L.?
Thoughts
Trick
Tell
Today
What does the term 'Effect' mean in the S.T.E.A.L. method?
What is revealed through the character's effect on other people and how other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character.
What those people surrounding the character are thinking. What they would write down later in their journals.
How this person judges themselves.
The author does not give details of other characters.
What is INDIRECT characterization?
The amount of adjectives and adverbs used to describe the character.
When the author TELLS things that reveal the personality of the character.
When the author lets side characters describe the main character.
When the author SHOWS things that reveal the personality of the character. What the reader must infer about them.
What does the term 'Thoughts' stand for in S.T.E.A.L.?
What other people think of the character.
What is revealed through the character's private thoughts and feelings.
The main character thinking about what to eat for lunch.
What other characters do.
What does the term 'Speech' mean in the acronym S.T.E.A.L.?
What the character's inner monologue says about other characters.
How much authority the character exerts over others.
The number of people talking over each other.
What the character says and how they speak.
