Techniques a writer uses to create and develop characters
What is Characterization?
100
The main character has this which his mother and girlfriend both cannot stand.
What is a moustache?
100
This is what I get from reading or watching a movie
What is mood?
100
This is the reason that Greg left his home in the first place.
What is he had a fight with his father about his grades?
100
This is the main conflict in the "Tell Tale Heart."
What is a man murders an old man and tries to hide it?
200
This type of character never changes
What is a static character?
200
This is the disease that Mike's grandma was suffering from.
What is Alzheimers?
200
This is the author's attitude towards a subject
What is tone?
200
Greg's dad is an example of this type of character
What is static character?
200
This is what the old man's "vulture" eye symbolizes.
What is evil?
300
This type of character changes during the story
What is a dynamic character?
300
Mike is an example of this type of character.
What is dynamic?
300
This often reflects the author's purpose in writing.
What is tone?
300
Greg is an example of this type of character
What is dynamic?
300
What tone does the following passage create?
"What COULD I do? I foamed-I raved-I swore. I swung the chair upon which I had beensitting, and greated it upon the boardes, but the noise arose over all and continually increased."
What is anxious or insane?
400
A character should have this to give a reason for his or her actions.
What is motive?
400
What is the moustache a symbol of?
What is maturity/Age?
400
These are four strategies that an author uses to create mood
What is dialogue, imagery, setting, and symbols?
400
How does the setting of "Lemon Brown" effect the tone of the story?
What is it makes the tone lonely/scared?
400
How does the pitch dark setting of the old man's bedroom effect mood?
What is it creates fear?
500
Characterization includes these four basic strategies:
What is physical description, dialogue, what other characters think and say to or about the main character, and statements made by the writer about the character.
500
The setting of the hospital effects the tone of the story in this way.
What is it makes it more sad and lonely?
500
These are two of the three purposes for writing AND the tones that are often associated with them.
What is to inform: Serious, to entertain: Playful?
500
What does the following quote tell us about the tone the setting creates?
"The dark sky, filled with angry, swirling clouds reflected Greg Ridley's mood as he sat on the stoop of his building."
What is an angry/moody tone?
500
This is strategy Poe used to create mood and this quote is an example of that strategy.