Describing Characters, Settings, and Events

The acronym we use to remember the tools that author's use in characterization is:

• STEM

• STEAL

• STEAM

• SPACECAT

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The perspectives of the characters are shaped by their relationships with one another, their environment, the events that unfold in the plot, and the ideas in the text.

• True

• False

• Both True and False

• Neither True nor False

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How characters interact with a setting can also reveal their values.

• Both true and false

• False

• True

• C.

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Authors may use DIRECT characterization

• by revealing characters through dialogue, or conversations

  between characters, and behavior, or the things characters do.

• by implying who is affected by the describing.

• by providing details, pieces of specific information,

  the reader learns directly from the narrator or other characters.

• by letting readers observe what the character does or says.

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The method of revealing character by letting readers observe what the character does or says is called:

• Indirect Characterization

• Bias

• Motive

• Direct Characterization

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A speaker, a narrator, or the characters themselves may offer the descriptive details, each

possibly providing a different:

• a maximum of 7 details

• slant

• source

• setting

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Contrast is often a key part of setting because

• reinforces readers’ expectations and confirming the values normally associated with the scene, making readers want to keep reading.

• challenges readers’ expectations and upends the values normally associated with the scene, making readers want to keep reading to find an explanation.

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The person telling a STORY is called a ______________.

• narrator

• speaker

• talker

• sayer

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Describe when a character in a story thinks back in time to reveal a moment, event, or experience from the past; it's purpose is to reveal information to the reader, and it breaks the linear structure of the story.

• flashback

• foreshadowing

• in media res

• exposition

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What is the term for the time and place in which a story occurs?

• A) Plot

• B) Setting

• C) Theme

• D) Conflict

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