Characterization
The acronym used to show characterization.
What is STEAL?
This has these following things: Exposition, triggering action, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
What is a plot mountain?
The opposite of the theme.
What is the thesis?
When the author specifically describes a character.
What is direct characterization?
The suffix that forms adverbs.
What is -ly?
The extra background character with no real interior thoughts.
What is a static/flat character?
What is the triggering action?
This is what the theme is.
What is the big idea that the author wants the reader to walk away with?
The qualities assigned to a character by the author.
What are character traits?
The 2 suffixes that mean full of or characterized by.
What are -lent/-ulent and -ous/-ious/-eous?
Main character of a story described and changes in the story.
What is a dynamic/round character?
What are the beginning, middle, and end?
Conflict+Resolution=Theme
This is what the author's purpose is.
What is why an author writes a particular story?
Greek and Latin roots form these two things when added to a word.
What are adjectives and adverbs?
Are the central figures who experience or enact events and actions of a story.
What is a character?
This is made up of the events and actions that happen to the character in a story.
What is the plot?
Theme shows up throughout all of these.
What are the story elements?
What are mood, time, and place?
This root means resembling.
What is -id?
Uses speech, thoughts, effects, and others to describe a character.
What is indirect characterization?
A plot mountain is used for this action.
What is mapping out the plot?
The story can have multiple themes including ___ and/or ___.
What are major and minor?
A category of a story.
What is genre?
The root -ine means this.
What is pertaining to?