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Defining Character

Charlie Chaplin

Charlie Chaplin – The Great Dictator

Readers get to know literary characters through the descriptions of their appearance and actions, their speech patterns in dialog with other characters and themselves, observations/statements by other characters (or the narrator), and sometimes directly from the character’s thoughts and emotions.  The art behind this information-download process is known as characterization.

There are two methods to convey characterization information to the reader.

Direct Characterization.  In this method  (also known as explicit characterization), the reader learns directly from the narrator/author all about the character’s personality

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