characterisation?


 * [|to analyse a character try completing the table] **
 * past || personal information || character 1 || character 2 ||
 * || public information ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||
 * present life || personal information ||  ||   ||
 * || public information ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||
 * present life || personal information ||  ||   ||
 * || public information ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||
 * || public information ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||
 * || internal thoughts about themselves ||  ||   ||

Now think about the context of the story back ground: location, suburb, state, country class: lower, middle, upper past experience & factors affecting their life eg accident, foster home.... values of: family, friends, narrator..

http://www.readwritethink.org/lesson_images/lesson1050/DynamicStatic.pdf Dynamic vs. Static Characters Characters experience varying amounts of change over the course of a story. Two types of characters are • Static characters ** that do not experience basic character changes during the course of the story. • ** Dynamic characters ** that experience changes throughout the plot of a story. Although the change may be sudden, it is expected based on the story’s events. A story’s characters fall within a range—from very static characters that experience no change to very dynamic characters that undergo one or more major changes. ** http://interactives.mped.org/view_interactive.aspx?id=30&title= above is an interactive character analysis activity

character traits record

**FLAT CHARACTER**: Also called a **static character**, a flat character is a simplified character who does not change or alter his or her personality over the course of a narrative, or one without extensive personality and characterization. The term is used in contrast with a round character. See **[|character]**, **[|round character]**, and **[|characterization]**. **CHARACTER**: Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation. The reader can interpret characters as endowed with moral and dispositional qualities expressed in what they say (**[|dialogue]**) and what they do (**[|action]**). E. M. Forster describes characters as "**[|flat]**" (i.e., built around a single idea or quality and unchanging over the course of the narrative) or "**[|round]**" (complex in temperament and motivation; drawn with subtlety; capable of growth and change during the course of the narrative). The main character of a work of a fiction is typically called the **[|protagonist]**; the character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends (if there is one), is the **[|antagonist]**. If a single secondary character aids the protagonist throughout the narrative, that character is the **[|deuteragonist]** (the hero's "side-kick"). A character of tertiary importance is a **[|tritagonist]**. These terms originate in classical Greek drama, in which a tenor would be assigned the role of protagonist, a baritone the role of deuteragonist, and a bass would play the tritagonist. Compare **[|flat characters]** with **[|stock characters]**, below. **CHARACTERIZATION**: An author or poet's use of description, dialogue, dialect, and action to create in the reader an emotional or intellectual reaction to a character or to make the character more vivid and realistic. Careful readers note each character's attitude and thoughts, actions and reaction, as well as any language that reveals geographic, social, or cultural background.