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Direct & Indirect
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A person in a story, poem, or play is this.
What is a character?
100
“Lord of the Flies” is an example of this broad category of writing.
What is a novel?
100
This type character has only one or two character traits.
What is a flat character?
100
Because of Ralph and Simon’s persistence in building shelters is this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
100
Because we know very little about the boy with the mulberry birthmark, he is this type of character.
What is flat?
200
Characterization is supplied by this person.
Who is the writer or the author?
200
A novel can be defined as this.
What is a long fiction prose narrative?
200
A round character is this.
What is a character who is complex with many traits?
200
The author tells us that Piggy is fat, an example of this type of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
200
Golding tells us Ralph’s age, appearance, and describes him as built like a boxer but mildness that proclaims no devil.
What is direct characterization?
300
Specific types are static, flat, and round.
What are types of characters?
300
A character that does not change much in the course of the novel.
What is a static character?
300
He is the author of “Lord of the Flies.”
Who is William Golding?
300
When we learn about a character by his actions, it is this type of characterization.
What is indirect characterization?
300
The boys wish they had adults to fix their world, when in reality the adults were fighting a war.
What is irony?
400
This is a character who serves as a contrast to another character.
What is a foil?
400
This will be true of a dynamic character.
What is that he or she changes in an important way in the course of the story.
400
The fact that choir boys who had sung music of love and mercy and in the course of the novel become violent illustrates this.
What is irony?
400
Roger’s character is revealed when he throws rocks at Henry.
What is indirect characterization?
400
Jack’s initial inability to kill the pig and his later embracing of violence show that he is this type of character.
What is dynamic?
500
When something happens that we don’t expect, it is called this.
What is irony?
500
Ralph can be described as this kind of character.
What is a dynamic character?
500
As they interact, Ralph and Jack can be described this way.
What are foils?
500
A writer uses these for indirect characterization.
What are the reactions of others and the speech, appearance, private thoughts, and actions of the character?
500
As a whole, the characterization of the little ‘uns can be described in two ways.
What are flat and static?