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Who is your favorite

character?

Why?
CHARACTERS
Refer to persons, creatures or things
serving as actors or movers in a story.

They portray specific roles with


corresponding dialogues and plot lines.

Protagonist and Antagonist


CHARACTERIZATION
It is a writer’s tool or “literary
device” that occurs any time
the author uses details to teach
us about a person.
TYPES OF
CHARACTERIZATION
•DIRECT CHARACTERIZATION

•INDIRECT CHARACTERIZATION
DIRECT
CHARACTERIZATION
Directly telling the
audience what the
personality of the
character is.
INDIRECT
CHARACTERIZATION
Shows things that reveal the personality of a
character
by using the STEAL Method..
S-ay
T-hink
E-ffect on others
A-ctions
L-ooks
CONFLIC
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