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What is it called when an author uses the character's own actions and the words of other characters characters to tell about the character?
Normal.
What is it called when an author never states what a character is like instead leaving it to the character's own actions and the words?
This is called "showing, not telling" in writing. It allows the readers to infer the character's traits and personality through their actions, dialogue, and interactions with other characters, rather than being explicitly told by the author.
What are approaches that examine the motives of the author and character called?
Approaches that examine the motives of both the author and characters include psychoanalytic criticism, which looks at unconscious desires influencing their actions, and biographical criticism, which considers how the author's life experiences shape the characters. These approaches help to uncover deeper layers of meaning in the text by analyzing the psychological and personal aspects of the author and characters.
What is it called when an author uses the character's own action and the words of other characters to tell about the character?
This is one form of indirect characterization.
What is it called when an author uses the characters own action and the words of the characters to tell about the character?
Indirect characterization
What form of characterization requires a reader to infer more things about a character as opposed to being told by the author?
This is called indirect characterization, where the characteristics, thoughts, or feelings of the character have to be inferred from his actions, or from how he interacts with the other characters.
When an author implies or hints at traits through the characters words and actions that is called?
indirect characterization
When the author implies or hints at traits through the characters words and actions that is called .?
indirect characterization
When the author implies hints at traits through the characters words and actions that is called?
indirect characterization
What process of revealing a character's traits in a story is called?
The process of revealing a character's traits in a story is called characterization. This can be done through a character's actions, thoughts, dialogue, appearance, and interactions with other characters.
What is the term for the way a writer gives information about characters by showing how the characters look act and think?
Characterization is the term that means how the author describes a character. You can have direct characterization, in which the author simply tells you something, like "He was a jolly old fellow." You can also have indirect characterization, in which the author shows you what the character is like by their actions and speech, such as "A tear rolled down his cheek as he watched the car pull away."
What is Direct Presentation?
author shows us the character in action; the reader infers what a character is like from what she/he thinks, or says, or does. These are also called dramatized characters and they are generally consistent (in behavior), motivated (convincing), and plausible (lifelike)."
