Pre-Assessment Characterization I

What is indirect characterization?

• The process by which the narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

• The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.

What is direct characterization?

• The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, etc.

• The process by which the narrator tells the audience what the personality of the character is.

What do you know about Jack from this sentence?

Jack looked at his sister with a strange look on his face after she put ketchup in her milk.

• Jack thinks his sister is making a good choice.

• Jack thinks his sister is weird for using ketchup in her milk.

• Jack doesn't care what his sister does.

Read the following and determine if the author used direct or indirect characterization.

No wonder Johnny was so heartbrokern. He had just learned that neither parent had ever really wanted him in the first place, and his aunt had only taken him in out of a sense of family duty.

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization

Read the following and determine if the author used direct or indirect characterization.

Jeremiah, the one in the family no one could trust and dared not turn their backs on, was already eyeing Grandmother's antique brooch lying on the kitchen counter where she had pulled it off after church.

• direct characterization

• indirect characterization