Character Exercise

1. Select as many of the character traits below that accurately describe the character/s from your passage. Be sure to base your choices on clues provided by this passage.

angry careful cheerful dishonest emotional evil good-hearted gullible honest hypochondriac jealous impulsive intellectual introspective lucky malicious masculine moody patriotic perplexed powerful proud prudent religious remorseful reserved romantic silly strong stubborn suicidal suspicious treasonous unwise vain vengeful violent wasteful weak wealthy 2. Are the characters in your passage round, flat, or stock characters? Can you identify a protagonist and antagonist from what you are given, or is the characterization ambiguous? 3. What strategies has the author used to develop characterization in your passage (i.e. dialogue, action, gender, costume, dialect, interaction with other characters)? 4. Explain your choices. Point to specific sections within the passage that support your claims.