Character

Question 1

The method an author uses to develop characters in a work. In direct characterization, the author straightforwardly states the character’s traits. With indirect characterization, those traits are implied through what the character says, does, how the character dresses, interacts with other characters, etc.

Answer 1

Characterization

Question 2

“He cared nothing for boxing, in fact he disliked it, but he learned it painfully and thoroughly to counteract the feeling of inferiority and shyness he had felt on being treated as a Jew at Princeton.” (Hemingway)

Answer 2

Characterization

Question 3

A major character’s moment of realization or awareness

Answer 3

Epiphany

Question 4

“How easy it is! To think of all the time I have lost splashing about like a baby!” (Chopin)

Answer 4

Epiphany

Question 5

Point of View:
“When I got up to go I found I had taken off my shoes. I hunted for them and found them and carried them down-stairs. I found my room and went inside and undressed and got into bed.” (Hemingway 199)

Answer 5

First Person Point of View

Question 6

A character constructed around a single idea or quality; immediately recognizable.

Answer 6

Flat Character

Question 7

Boy with the Mullberry Birth Mark (LOTF)
Tom Buchanan (Gatsby)

Answer 7

Flat Character

Question 8

A character whose traits are the opposite of another and who thus emphasized the strengths and weaknesses of the other character.

Answer 8

Foil

Question 9

Ralph to Jack (LOTF)

Answer 9

Foil

Question 10

Overwhelming pride or insolence that results in the misfortune of the protagonist of a tragedy.

Answer 10

Hubris

Question 11

“I, Oedipus, whom all men call the Great”

Answer 11

Hubris

Question 12

The perspective from which a fictional or nonfictional story is told.

Answer 12

Point of View

Question 13

Point of View:
“One morning, when Gregor Samsa woke from troubled dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.”

Answer 13

Third Person Limited Point of View

Question 14

Opposite of flat, usually protagonist (Ralph - LOTF , Gatsby, George - OM&M)

Answer 14

Round Character

Question 15

A character drawn with sufficient complexity to be able to surprise the reader without losing credibility.

Answer 15

Round Character

Question 16

Teiresias – the blind seer, prophet, fortune teller
Roger (LOTF) - the bully

Answer 16

Stock Character

Question 17

Archetypal characters that recur repeatedly in various literary genres.

Answer 17

Stock Character