Direct and Indirect Characterization, Types of characters
Parts of the Plot-exposition, rising action, etc..
Irony-Situational and Dramatic, tone, inference...
100
his wide shoulders, sturdy neck, dark oily hair wetted and combined sleeky back from his forehead like a roosters crest.
What is imagery
100
God
What is allusion
100
"His wide shoulders, sturdy neck, dark oily hair wetted and combed sleekly back from his forehead like a rooster's crest..."
What is Direct Characterization
100
even by the standards of our neighborhood Mr. Sokolov had died an unusual death. he was a large fleshy man with deep-set suspicious eyes and bushy but receding hair that gave him a perfectly affronted look.
What is rising action.
100
I had vaguely recalled this man following me down the stairs
What is foreshadowing
200
Rakish combinations that suited him, pin-striped shirts, sweater vests, suspenders, bulky tweed coats and corduroy trousers, cheap leather belts with enormous buckles, even, frequently.
What is imagery
200
Adult science fiction by Heinlein, Bradbury, Asimov.
What is allusion
200
"His eyes were heavy-lidded, his lips rather thick, the lower lip in particular; the curious scar high on his forehead gleamed with reflected light."
What is Direct Characterization
200
i had vaguely recalled this man following me down the stairs but i must have told myself, if I'd told myself anything, that he was simply headed for the men's lavatory. "little girl...c'mon here."
What is rising action
200
he is Asian, Thai or Vietnamese, and very skinny, dressed as one of the poor in rumpled suit pants and a plaid mackinaw. Who does this compare to in the story.
What is Bruno
300
his eyes were heavy-lidded, his lips rather thick, the lower lip in particular; the curious scar high on his forehead gleamed with reflected light.
What is imagery
300
Bram Stroker's DRACULA.
What is allusion
300
laughing at his jokes, a shiver of certitude, ripping among even the dullest of us like a nervous reflex.
What is indirect characterization.
300
and then the door was pushed open, and Bruno Sokolov appeared, crouched, unhesitating, moving swiftly...he had shoved his way past the witnesses in the corridor.
What is the climax
300
he was tough; the natural leader of a neighborhood gang of boys; he carried a switchblade knife.
What is foreshadowing
400
shouts and cries burst about us like birds' shrieks echoing in the passageway and then dipping abruptly to silence.
What is simile
400
Men's Lavatory
What is symbolism
400
I was small, I was brainy, I was invisible.
What is direct characterization.
400
"And I knew I would be safe.....And he did not die from Bruno Sokolov's attack."
What is falling action
400
He was famous for intimidating, or harassing, or actually beating up certain of his classmates.
What is foreshadowing
500
librarian with the pearl-framed glasses now as solicitous of me as a mother.
What is simile
500
I was small, I was brainy, I was invisible.
What is point of view
500
with an aggressive sort of shyness.
What is direct characterization
500
"By 16 Bruno Sokolov had quit school, by 17 he had joined the army, by 18 he'd been shipped overseas to die within a few months at the Battle of Taegu, Korea.