Development
Characters progress their stories in two ways.
What are dialogue and action?
Personality often includes analysis of this aspect of character, which guides decisions.
What is emotion?
A protagonist
What is a character role?
The two ways character traits can be written.
What are physical and personality?
Character development occurs at this time in the story
What is throughout?
The main reason a character develops.
What is a lesson?
A word that described the personality of a character
What is a trait?
How someone treats their family.
What are relationships?
The two ways we can analyze a character.
What are explicit and implicit?
Character development helps the author build this in their novel
What is theme?
Shaped by motivations, impact others.
What are actions?
Physical traits are displayed through this part of the character.
What is appearance?
This is intrinsic or extrinsic.
What is motivation?
What is physical analysis?
The author may choose to include this to shock the character and change their development further.
What is a plot twist?
Shown by looking at a character at the start and end of their story.
What is growth?
Personality is shown, rather than told.
What is indirect characterization?
What a character says, rather than what they do
What is dialogue?
Events that have already occurred before the story takes place, sometimes vital to the plot.
What is background information?
The way(s) the author tells the reader about the character.
What is characterization?
While some characters stay the same, these characters change.
What is a dynamic character?
Either a strength or a weakness, sometimes fatal.
What is a flaw?
This causes character growth, either willingly or forcefully.
What are main events?
We must use these skills to analyze characters.
What are inference skills?
The character is often searching for it and the author must give it to them.
What is purpose?