Characterization
The way authors can use characterization
When something happens that is not expected.
What is irony?
The feeling the reader gets from reading a story.
What is mood?
A describing word.
What is an adjective?
The action of a sentence.
What is a verb?
The author directly tells readers about a character and their personality.
What is Direct Characterization?
When the outcome of a situation is totally different than what we expect.
What is situational Irony?
The author’s feeling or attitude towards the story.
What is tone?
Word that modify or restrict the meaning of verbs.
What is an adverb?
The who or what of a sentence.
What is a subject?
When the author shows readers about a character and their personality through the character’s speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks
What is indirect characterization?
When the reader or audience knows more about the situation than the characters do.
A warning, clue, or indication of a future event.
What is foreshawdowing?
Locally, Happily, Boldly, & Heavily.
What are examples of adverbs?
Words that are verbs, just not actions.
What are linking verbs?
What is STEAL?
When you say one thing, but mean another.
What is verbal irony?
The feeling the reader gets from reading a story, when you are on the edge of your seat!
What is suspense?
Pretty, Strong, Brown, & Weird.
What are examples of adjectives?
When subjects and verbs agree in number.Singular subjects take singular verbs and plural subjects take plural verbs.
The meaning of each letter for STEAL.
Speech
Thoughts
Effect on others
Actions
Looks
The biggest example of verbal irony.
What is sarcasm?
Type of movies that thrive from suspense and foreshadowing.
What are horror/scary and mystery movies?
A conclusion or opinion that is formed based on evidence from the text.
What is an inference?
The noun that a pronoun replaces, or refers to.
What is the antecedent?