Conflict/Characterization TEST Flashcards
Conflict
The problems in a story
Characterization
The way an author reveals external or internal character traits
Direct characterization
The author tells the reader about character’s personality
Indirect characterization
The author shows the reader the character’s personality by speech,thoughts,Effect on others,actions, and looks
Round characters
Interesting realistic layered multi dimensional
Flat characters
Boring dull two dimensional
Dynamic characters
go through change
static characters
stay the same
Internal traits
adjectives describing personality
External traits
adjectives describing appearance
Internal conflict
Conflict that takes place inside the mind
External conflict
Any conflict that takes place outside the mind
Person vs self
Inner moral conflict inside the mind
Person vs Person
protagonist vs antagonist
Person vs society
against a traditsion an instition a law or other societal construct \, not a single person