What is the reason a character behaves a certain way?
100
Through thoughts, words, actions and feelings.
What are the ways an author reveals a character's traits?
100
A story about a person's life written by another person.
What is a biography?
100
A series of related events in a story.
What is plot?
100
Dishonest
What is the opposite trait for honest?
200
People or animals involved in a story. Anyone who plays a part in the story.
What are characters?
200
Direct and indirect characterization.
What are two types of characterization an author can use?
200
A story written about a person by that person.
What is an autobiography?
200
The struggle that occurs between the main character and an internal or external force .
What is conflict?
200
Things we assume based upon our own experiences, imagining we are in the character's place, and forming conclusions based upon the character's action.
What are inferences?
300
The essential traits that describe that character. These traits affect the plot and outcome of the story.
What are a character's qualities and what do they affect?
300
A character's traits are revealed through their words, thoughts, actions, or feelings.
What is indirect characterization?
300
An autobiography.
What is an example of biased writing?
300
The most exciting or emotional point in a story at which time the conflict is ended.
What is the climax?
300
Characters seem unreal and are flat and unbelievable.
What is poor characterization?
400
The way a writer reveals a character.
What is characterization?
400
An author tells you what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
400
The author presents facts but does not give his own opinion or feelings.
What is objective writing?
400
The point in the story when the conflict has been decided and all the loose ends are tied up.
What is resolution.
400
This conflict happens between a character and an outside force such as a force of nature, or another character.
What is an external conflict?
500
What a character says and does.
What is a character's behavior.
500
In this type of characterization the author brings a character to life by allowing the reader to make their own observations and conclusions about the character.
What is indirect characterization?
500
Writing in which opinions and feelings of the author are revealed.
What is subjective writing?
500
An episode in the plot that repeats itself.
What is a parallel episode?
500
This struggle is within a person. It may be a struggle between right and wrong or a struggle with an important decision.