Character Types
Characterization
Conflicts
Plot/Point of View
100

A character who undergoes a significant change in personality, character, or outlook.

Dynamic Character

100

When an author describes a character by using their own thoughts/beliefs.

Characterization through thoughts

100

A character is battling a physical being.

External Conflict

100

The beginning of a narrative.

Exposition

200

A character with opposite traits to another character.

Foil Character

200

The method of describing a character in which the author shows what a character is like by describing the character’s words or actions, so that readers can infer their traits, without explicitly telling them.

Indirect Characterization

200

A character is outcasted in a story

Character versus Society

200

When the narrarator knows everything about everyone at all times.

Thrid Person Omniscient

300

A character who does not undergo any significant change in personality or character over the course of a story.

Static Character

300

If an author describes a character with the clothes they wear, that is an example of:

Characterization through appearance

300

When multiple characters are in an argument

Character versus Character

300

The end of a story.

Resolution/Denumount