Indirect Characterization

Which types of indirect characterization are at play in the passage below? (Hint: there are 2 correct answers!)

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effect on others

• Actions

• Looks

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which types of indirect characterization are at play in the passage below? (Hint: there are 2 correct answers).

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effect on others

• Actions

• Looks

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which type of indirect characterization is at play in the passage below?

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effect on others

• Actions

• Looks

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

What does STEAL stand for?

• Shakespeare, Tolkien, Ellison, Austen, and Le Guin

• shoe, tree, elephant, apple, letter

• showing, thinking, editing, analyzing, and listing

• speech, thoughts, effects on others, actions, and looks

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Read the following passage and decide if it is a better example of direct or indirect characterization.

Dr. Álvarez has been in her clinic since morning, spending time with her patients and listening to their concerns.

• Direct

• Indirect

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which type of indirect characterization is at play in the passage below?

• Speech

• Thoughts

• Effect on others

• Actions

• Looks

Corbin laughed without mercy. "What?" he demanded. "You actually expect me to help?"

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

From the driveway, I could already hear him, meowing at me from behind the apartment mirror. He pawed at the glass. As I came up to the porch, he leapt down from the windowsill to meet me at the door.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

She studied the board carefully. She knew that if she made one false move, the game would be over. She would lose. And Yolanda Smithy did NOT like to lose. She had to play this just right. She had to win.

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

"You two are crazy!" Hermione Granger exclaimed. "That was a live troll, and we're only first year students! You could have gotten us killed--or worse, expelled."

• Direct Characterization

• Indirect Characterization

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3