Characterization
This type of character undergoes significant change.
What is a dynamic character?
The beginning of a narrative where the setting, characters, and basic situation are introduced.
What is the exposition?
When the narrator addresses the reader directly, using the word "you".
What is second person?
A clue or hint in a story about something important that will happen or be revealed later.
What is foreshadowing?
The antagonist of "August Heat".
Who is Charles Atkinson (the stone mason)?
This character opposes the main character in a narrative.
Who is the antagonist?
The turning point of a narrative.
What is the climax?
When the narrator is a character telling the story using words like "I" and "we".
What is first person?
When something is the opposite of what you expect.
What is irony?
A round (complex) character in "August Heat".
James Clarence Withencroft
This term describes a character that remains unchanged throughout the story.
What is a static or flat character?
A series of events that builds interest or suspense in a narrative
What is rising action?
When the reader cannot trust the narrator telling the story.
What is an unreliable narrator?
The feeling or atmosphere that the author creates for the reader.
What is mood?
“The flesh hung in rolls about his chin; it creased his huge, stumpy neck” is an example of this type of characterization.
What is direct characterization?
This type of characterization uses speech, thoughts, actions, and appearance.
What is indirect characterization?
This brings the plot to a close – when you see a completed picture.
What is the conclusion or denouement?
When the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of one of the characters.
What is third-person limited?
Something that stands for or represents something else, usually an idea, feeling, or concept.
What is symbol?
Despite our best efforts, we cannot control our own destinies is an example of this in "August Heat".
What is theme?
What is internal conflict or person vs self?
An important early event that signals the start of the action of a story and introduces the conflict.
What is the complicating incident?
When the narrator is outside the story and knows the thoughts and feelings of all the characters.
What is third-person omniscient?
The author’s attitude or feelings toward the subject or the story.
What is tone?
This is a symbol representing how, despite our best efforts, we cannot control our own destinies in "August Heat".
What is oppressive heat, the gravestone, drawing the criminal or the date on the gravestone?