Characters & Characterization
The two main types of characterization used by authors.
What are direct and indirect characterization?
The difference between internal and external conflict.
What is internal conflict is a struggle within a character’s mind, while external conflict is a struggle between the character and an outside force?
The definition of setting and how it influences a narrative.
What is the time and place of a story, which shapes mood, theme, and character behavior?
A central message or insight about life that an author conveys through literature.
What is theme?
This story features two sisters with clashing views on culture and heritage.
What is Everyday Use?
This character in "Everyday Use" is indirectly characterized through her confident speech and judgmental behavior.
Who is Dee?
The internal conflict that George faces about his loyalty to Lennie.
What is whether to protect Lennie or do what he knows is morally right?
The way the rural kitchen setting in Trifles contributes to the men’s dismissal of the women’s observations
What is the setting reflects gender roles and reinforces the men’s disregard for “trifles”?
A theme in Everyday Use related to heritage, family, or identity.
What is the conflict between real heritage and superficial appreciation of culture?
In this story, a girl explores the woods and finds a horrifying remnant of racial violence.
What is The Flowers?
Curley’s wife is indirectly characterized in this way when she talks about her lost dreams and flirts with other men.
What are SPEECH and ACTIONS?
A conflict between a character and the expectations of their community found in "The Lottery" or Trifles.
What is character vs. society?
The surprising setting of The Lottery that hides the story’s violent twist.
What is the typical rural setting that disguises the horror of the lottery?
This novel explores the broken promise of the American Dream through its migrant characters
What is Of Mice and Men?
In this story, townspeople gather on a sunny day to participate in a deadly ritual.
What is The Lottery?
This character in The Flowers changes from innocence to awareness in a very short story.
Who is Myop?
The type of conflict that arises when Myop finds the noose and the body in The Flowers.
What is character vs. self or character vs. society?
This novel’s setting—migrant camps during the Great Depression—contributes to themes of loneliness and struggle.
What is Of Mice and Men?
This one-act play reveals a theme about how women’s voices are dismissed in a patriarchal society.
What is Trifles?
This play ends with women uncovering a murder motive that the men entirely overlook.
What is Trifles?
This character from Trifles is developed using both what others say about her and the clues found in her home.
Who is Mrs. Wright?
This novel contains character vs. self, character vs. character, and character vs. society conflicts that shape its ending.
What is Of Mice and Men?
A story where setting reinforces both emotional isolation and societal constraints, such as poverty or gender roles
What is either Trifles or Of Mice and Men?
A short story where the theme of lost innocence is revealed through a child’s encounter with death.
What is The Flowers?
This novel focuses on friendship, dreams, and tragedy between two men during the Great Depression.
What is Of Mice and Men?