indirect characterization
What can characterization reveal to the reader? The fears and motivations of the characters. Apex 1.2.3 quiz
Characters
It affects how the reader will interpret characters' actions.
An objective narrator reports action and dialog without telling the reader what characters think or feel.
It gets readers invested in characters and the setting
The mysterious disappearance of a key character and the sudden change in behavior of another character create tension in the story, leading readers to question the true motives of the characters involved.
In "The Westing Game," the reader knows the true identities and motives of the characters involved in the Westing game mystery, as well as the solution to the puzzle. Grace, one of the characters in the story, is not privy to this information and is playing the game along with the other heirs, trying to uncover the truth.
Expostition
What can characterization reveal to the reader? The fears and motivations of the characters. Apex 1.2.3 quiz
Normative characters, as the term implies, work as stand-ins for the reader. Other characters in a story may conceal their motives or behave deceptively, but a normative character offers the reader opportunity to identify with someone who steers a clear course through the events of the plot. When normative characters narrate the story, they seem to possess clarity of vision and hold values sufficiently like the reader's to make them dependable reporters. When they are actors within a story recounted in third-person narration, normative characters display traits meant to resemble similar ones readers find in themselves. (Reilly 122-123)
Characters
Characters
Stock characters are instantly familiar to the reader, and will allow the reader to understand what's going to happen and how the characters are going to react without a lot of description and explanation.
It affects how the reader will interpret characters' actions.
It places limits on what characters can and can't do.
characters.
Plot means what happens in a story. The characters are the living beings in a story, sometimes it can be the setting (but this is rare)