Character/Characterization
A person, creature or animal that takes part in the action of the story.
What is a character?
The time and place of a story.
What is the setting?
The perspective from which the story is told.
What is the point of view?
The struggle between opposing forces (opposite sides)
What is conflict?
The life lesson or what the author wants you to learn from a story.
What is the theme?
A character that undergoes great change throughout the story.
What is a dynamic character?
There are five elements of setting that can influence the story. Name 1.
1. Geographic location
2. Time of year (season)
3. Time of day
4. Social conditions
5. Time period (past, present, future)
Type of POV: uses pronouns like I, me, us and we
What is 1st person pov?
A conflict between a character and outside forces
What is external conflict?
Name one way to determine the theme of the story.
1. Watch the journey of the protagonist
2. Find a topic word that helps you narrow your ideas about theme
3. Create a summary/plot diagram
A character that shows very little change throughout the story.
What is a static character?
There are five elements of setting that can influence the story. Name a different 1.
1. Geographic location
2. Time of year (season)
3. Time of day
4. Social conditions
5. Time period (past, present, future)
Type of POV: The narrator is not a character in the story but we see the story from one character's perspective.
What is 3rd person limited POV?
A conflict that occurs within the mind of one character
What is internal conflict?
Name a second way to determine the theme of a story.
1. Watch the journey of the protagonist
2. Find a topic word that helps you narrow your ideas about theme
3. Create a summary/plot diagram
The way a writer reveals things about a character.
What is characterization?
The part of the story where setting is usually introduced?
What is exposition?
Type of POV: The narrator is not a character in the story but the narrator is "all knowing". We see the story through multiple characters' perspectives.
What is 3rd person omniscient pov?
Name one type of internal conflict.
What is character vs. self?
What 6 things are found in the summary or plot structure of a story?
Who, what, when, where, why and how
The acronym used when remembering things that influence characterization.
What is STEAL?
There are five elements of setting that can influence the story. Name the remaining 3.
1. Geographic location
2. Time of year (season)
3. Time of day
4. Social conditions
5. Time period (past, present, future)
Why does point of view matter? Give two reasons.
1. We all see the world differently
2. Our different backgrounds and experiences effect how we see things
3. Bias can affect how we see or hear a story
Name the four types of external conflict.
What are character vs. character, character vs. nature, character vs. technology, and character vs. society?
Name the five parts of the plot structure diagram.
1. Exposition
2. Rising action
3. Climax
4. Falling action
5. Resolution