Characterization
A person who is characterized this way might keep applying for jobs even after getting rejected from everyone he or she applied for.
What is resilient?
What is man v. supernatural conflict?
Example response: Vampires, witches, aliens, angels, monsters, etc.
Bonus (50 points): Think of an example in movies or TV that has this.
How the reader or viewer or audience feels.
What is mood?
This is the definition of connotation.
What is the feelings behind words?
What is MLA formatting for ending citations?
( + Authors name + page number + ) + .
(Thomas 1).
What is indecisive?
What is a real-life example of man v. man conflict? (movies, other people, tv shows, etc).
Example response: Two students fighting over a parking spot.
The writer’s or speaker’s attitude toward his subject, his audience, or self.
What is author's tone?
Put these words in order from negative to neutral to positive connotation? Different, unique, strange
Is this a correctly formatting signal phrase?
In "You Can Buy Happiness, If It's an Experience", Singh writes "...
No
Bonus (20 points): How do you fix it?
This type of characterization is used in the following sentence: "The little girl stole all of her brother's toys one by one".
What is indirect characterization?
Bonus points (50): What character trait is being shown?
Create a story with man v. technology conflict in 1 sentence about a character named Amanda while driving to school.
Example answer: On Amanda's way to school for her last final of senior year, a spaceship landed in front of her.
Bonus (25 points): What is Amanda's motivation in the example and what stands in her way?
Instructions for actors, directors, and stage crews indicated by italics or parentheses.
What are stage directions?
Put these words in order from negative to neutral to positive connotation? Explore, snoop, search
Snoop, Search, Explore
Is this a correctly formatted quote?
The author of The Giver writes, "It was almost December, and Jonas was beginning to be frightened" (1).
No
Bonus (20 points): How do you fix it?
Change the following direct characterization to indirect characterization using actions: "Thomas hated losing any time but especially during the championship game".
Example answer: Thomas sat on the field long staring at the scoreboard long after everyone left so that he didn't yell in frustration at any of his teammates.
Create a story with man v. man conflict about a character named Alex who is running.
Bonus (50 points): What is the most important element to determining conflict type?
An image that represents something other than itself; when something tangible (concrete) represents something intangible (abstract)
What is symbolism?
Put these words in order from negative to neutral to positive connotation? (unstructured, spontaneous, impulsive)
Impulsive, Unstructured, Spontaneous
If you use the author's name in the signal phrase, do you put the author's name in the ending citation?
No
Bonus (20 points): If you're not supposed to put the author's name in the ending citation and you don't have page numbers, what do you put in the ending citation?
Change the following direct characterization into an indirect characterization using effect on others: "Jane was the quietest person in the classroom".
Example answer: Jane spoke at a volume that forced everyone else in the classroom to stop talking in order to hear her.
Protagonist: Jack
Antagonist: Aliens
Conflict: Man v. Self
Example answer: Jack couldn't believe his own brother was an alien; should he turn him in to the government or help him escape?
A universal idea, message, or lesson explored in a work of literature; this gives some insight into life and being human
What is theme?
Put these words in order from negative to neutral to positive connotation? Brief, succinct, curt
Curt, Brief, Succinct
What are the three necessary parts of an MLA formatted quotes?
Signal phrase, quote, ending citation