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Kitt RL.3 NOTES - Characterization and Flashback (Guided)

The document discusses characterization in literature. It defines characterization as how writers reveal the personality of characters. Characterization introduces depth and helps readers understand characters' thoughts and behaviors. It also allows readers to better relate to the story's events. The document contrasts direct characterization, which tells the reader about a character, with indirect characterization, which shows a character's personality through their speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks. It also contrasts protagonist vs antagonist, dynamic vs static, and round vs flat characters. The document defines flashbacks and discusses how they provide context and insight into a character's motivation.

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Kitt RL.3 NOTES - Characterization and Flashback (Guided)

The document discusses characterization in literature. It defines characterization as how writers reveal the personality of characters. Characterization introduces depth and helps readers understand characters' thoughts and behaviors. It also allows readers to better relate to the story's events. The document contrasts direct characterization, which tells the reader about a character, with indirect characterization, which shows a character's personality through their speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks. It also contrasts protagonist vs antagonist, dynamic vs static, and round vs flat characters. The document defines flashbacks and discusses how they provide context and insight into a character's motivation.

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Characterization

The process by which the writer reveals the personality of a character

The Functions of Characterization

An essential component in writing good literature as its introduces depth to characters and situations.

Helps us make sense of the behavior of any character in a story by helping us understand their thought processes.

Leads the leaders or audience to relate better to the events taking place in the story.

Character Motivation
Describes why a particular character behaves a specific way.

Direct Characterization Indirect Characterization

Tells the reader the personality of the character Shows things that revealed the personality of the character

“The patient boy and quiet girl were both well behaved and did not
disobey their mother.”

S
Speech

T
Thoughts

E
Effect on others
A Actions

L
Looks

Protagonist VS Antagonist

The main character usually the “good guy” The character that creates conflict for the main character, Usually
the “bad guy”

Dynamic VS Static

A dynamic characters is someone important who undergoes an A static character is one whose personality doesn’t change
important,Internal change because of the action in the plot. throughout the events in the storys plot

Round VS Flat

A round character is a major character in a work of fiction who A flat character is a minor character in a work of fiction who does
encounters conflict and is changed by it. not undergo substantial change or growth in the course of a story.

Based on the author’s description, what can the reader infer about the character?/How does the author use characterization to add additional depth?/What does the author’s use of language
reveal about the character?/How does the author use characterization to advance the plot?/What is the effect of the author’s use of flashback?/Based on the flashback, what can the reader
infer about the character?/How does the flashback affect the tone/mood of the selection?

Flashback
Interruptions that writers use to insert past events in order to prove background or context to the current events of a narrative.

Dream sequences and memories are methods used to present flashbacks

The Function of a Flashback


By using flashbacks, writers allow their readers to gain insight to a character's motivation and provide a background to a current conflict

What does the flashback with the Grinch reveal about his character?

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