ENGLISH 9 - Q1

Characters

Pertaining to a person, animal, being, creature, or inanimate objects / thing in a story

Major and Minor

Type of Characters

Protagonist and antagonist

Under maj. characters

Protagonist

Main character

Antagonist

Conflict character

Minor Character

This type of character pertains that is limitedly significant, however it plays a large part of scene in the story depending on the director

Characterization

Act of creating and describing characters

Direct and Indirect

Types / methods of characterization

Direct characterization

_______ consists of an author telling the audience what a character looks like

Indirect characterization

__________ pertains to a character’s thoughts and dialogues

Lorraine Hansberry

Author of Raisin in the Sun

Mama

Mother of the Raisin of the Sun

Beneatha

Daughter of Mama

Walter

son of Mama

Ruth

Walter’s wife

Travis

son of their family; minor character

Bobo and Willy

Walter's friends

Langston Hughes

Harlem’s author

Trifles

Unimportant; also, it is specifically a play that showcases its justice, strong emotions throughout Minnie Wright’s plot from her past identity

Susan Glaspell

Trifles’ author

Minnie Wright

A central character of Trifles that has been accused by killing his wife, John; and has her past surname

Minnie Foster

past surname of Minnie

John Wright

Minnie’s wife

Conflict

It is characterized by the struggle of tensions between two opposing forces and drives the narrative forward

Internal and External Conflict

Types of Conflict

Internal Conflict

This conflict occurs within a character and often drives the character’s development

External Conflict

This conflict struggles between the character and outside force

Character vs. Self, Nature, Society, and Character

Types of internal conflict

Point of View (POV)

person's perspective from a story / drama

Limited View

a type of view that the audience is experienced

Omniscient View

this type refers, however, to a less common approach/type of view, although it can be achieved through a chorus/narrator

Dramatic Irony

a literary technique that audience comprehends something that the characters do not and is created through tension that engages the audience of a story

Poetry

A creative art form that uses language in a condensed and evocative manner

SIMILE

A figurative comparison between unlike things. It uses “like” or “as.

METAPHOR

A figure of speech that directly compares two unlike things by stating that one thing is actually the other

Personification

A form of metaphor in which human traits, emotions, or actions are attributed to nonhuman things

Hyperbole

Exaggerated or extravagant statement used to make a strong impression, however is not literally be taken

Synecdoche

Uses a part of something to mean the whole or vice versa

Metonymy

Replacing a name of an object with a term that may be closely related

Oxymoron

Two opposite or contradictory words

Paradox

This may be showcased when a seemingly contradictory and illogical manner are at first; but in the end, it may reveal an underlying truth