Characterization
Physical and personality elements that serve to define a person or fictional character.
What are character traits?
A condition where tissue begins to die due to extreme cold.
What is hypothermia?
Examples: Strong, tall, brown hair.
What are his physical traits?
The point of view where the narrator is a character in the story.
What is first-person narration?
A virtuous character that is morally righteous and helps others.
What is a hero
A type of character that doesn't develop through the story
What is a static character?
Which is the closest elevation to Everest's height?
20,000 ft.; 25,000 ft.; 30,000 ft.; or 40,000 ft.
30,000 ft.
He is trying to accomplish something to help show that blind people are not defined by their disability.
What is his motivation?
The general term for the point-of-view where the narrator is not a character in the story.
What is third person point-of-view?
The character who is set against the protagonist in a conflict.
What is the antagonist?
An example: James begins a happy, naive young man, but after his conflict with his estranged father, he ends the story being cynical and bitter.
What is a dynamic character?
The ominous name given to the upper-most level of Everest's elevation.
What is the Death Zone?
Brave, determined, tenacious.
What are his personality traits?
A type of third person point-of-view where the narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all characters.
What is omniscient?
Examples: The mad scientist, the dumb but strong athlete, the good natured but bumbling sidekick
What are stock characters?
A character with multiple important and often contradictory character traits.
What is a round character?
The name given to the lower part of Everest that is made up of shifting ice boulders and glacier.
What is the Khumbu Icefall?
What is Erik's job besides climbing mountains?
What is a motivational speaker?
What is limited omniscient?
A character who is not overtly good or evil but acts generally with more questionable and selfish motivations.
What is an anti-hero?
What is motivation?
Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay.
Who were the first men to climb Mount Everest?
What does Erik refer to when he says, "that was also a kind of mountain"?
Raising and caring for his daughter?
What is an unreliable narrator?
The term for two characters whose superficial traits are the same or similar but whose personality traits are opposite to each other.
What are foils?