Character Types
Melinda in Speak is this type of character because she experiences change
What is dynamic?
An example of this type of conflict would be the relationship between Heather and Melinda in Speak
What is character vs. character conflict?
The literary term for verbal sarcasm
What is verbal irony?
Dad's shop was a messy disaster area, a labyrinth of lathes. Its walls were hung with the mounted antlers of deer he'd bagged, forming a makeshift museum of death.
What is a maze?
This class is what Rempel teaches most
What is drama
The titular character in The Sniper could be described as this type of character
What is a flat character?
Truman's relationship with reality could best be summarised with this conflict type
Character vs. the unknown
An implicit, implied, or even hidden comparison between two unrelated things that share some characteristics in common
What is a metaphor?
"For the most part we are an intemperate people: we eat too much when we can, drink too much, indulge our senses too much.
What is a lack of self control?
The names of Rempel's two rabbits
What are Jim and Tofu?
A character that does not grow or change over the course of the story
What is a static character?
This conflict happens in the "present" storyline of the short story "The Tunnel"
What is character vs. nature
Something, usually, an object, that represents something to give it a different meaning that is more complex, deeper, and more significant.
What is symbolism?
"Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our screaming.
What is a swirling wind?
Rempel's alma mater
What is the University of Alberta
An example of a stock character from the film Batman Begins
(Varied answer) Rachel-Damsel in Distress
Bruce Wayne-Playboy
Falcone-Mad Scientist
The actress who plays Truman's wife in The Truman Show experiences this type of conflict
Character vs. self
A phrase or expression that has a meaning other than the literal meaning; is hard to understand if you are not from the region the phrase is from
What is an idiom?
In resenting progress and change, a man lays himself open to censure.
What is disapporval or mockery?
The best strategy to focus before a test
What is take a deep breath and drink cold water
An example of character foils from The Truman Show
Who are Truman and Cristoff?
Ra'as Al Ghul is faced with this type of conflict in the film Batman Begins
What is character vs. society
A situation that plays out in a way opposite to that intended
What is Situational Irony?
At work he was known to punctuate his conversations with brief wild laughs and gusts of inchoate enthusiasm and subsequent embarrassment, expressed by a sudden plunging of the hands into his pockets
What is sudden or unexpected?
How long Rempel has been at Hunting
What is 2 years