| Term | Definition |
|---|
| characterization | the way an author presents a character and reveals character traits - by - what a character says - what a character thinks - what a character does - how a character responds to other characters |
| major characters | Almost always round or three-dimensional characters. They have good and bad qualities. Their goals, ambitions and values change. A round character changes as a result of what happens to him or her. A character who changes inside as a result of what happens to him is referred to in literature as a DYNAMIC character. A dynamic character grows or progresses to a higher level of understanding in the course of the story. |
| protagonist | main character |
| antagonist | the character who works against the protagonist in the story |
| foil | a character whose personality and attitude contrast sharply with those of another |
| minor characters | Almost always flat or two-dimensional characters. They are usually all good or all bad. Such characters lack depth. Flat characters are sometimes referred to as STATIC characters because they do not change in the course of the story. |
| point of view | the perspective from which a story is told |
| first person | the narrator is a character in the story |
| third person objective | the narrator is not a character in the story and reports only what can be seen and heard |
| third person limited | the narrator i an outsider who sees into the ind of the characters |
| omniscent | The narrator is an all-knowing outsider who can enter the minds of more than one of the characters. |
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