Plot
Types of Characters
Types of Characters
Point of View
100
Introduces you to plot events, characters, and the setting.
What is the exposition.
100
Shows things that reveal the personality of a character.
What is indirect characterization.
100
A character who does not change with the plot.
What is a static character.
100
involves the narrator as part of the story.
What is first person point of view.
200
Introduction to characters and setting
What we learn in the first stage of plot
200
What the character says or how the character speaks.
What is indirect characterization - speech.
200
A character who experiences a personality change with the events in the plot.
What is a dynamic character.
200
Treats the reader as the main character in the story.
What is second person point of view.
300
Conflict or main event in the story.
What is the climax.
300
What is revealed through the character's effect on other people.
What is the effect on others - indirect characterization.
300
Example: Harry Potter from "Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets"- Harry learns a lesson that helps mold him into the person he is.
What is an example of a dynamic character.
300
narrator reports the facts and inner feelings from the perspective of one character.
What is third person limited.
400
Where the reader ends the story and the conflict is resolved.
What is the resolution of the story.
400
tells the audience the personality of the character.
What is direct characterization.
400
Example: Sylvia Salvador from "Eleven"
What is an example of a static character
400
expresses the inner feelings of multiple characters.
What is third person omniscient.
500
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, and Resolution
What is the 5 stages of plot.
500
Example: The patient boy and quiet girl were both well-mannered and did not disobey their mother.
What is direct characterization.
500
Example: Tarik from "Nadia the Willful" - learns a lesson that helps him remember his son
What is an example of a dynamic character.
500
example: Are you kidding me? Haley thought. I do not want to be the house that gives out apples that all of the kids groan about as they throw them away.
What is third person limited.