Theme and Characterization
Across
- 4. a main character in a literary work that we root for and hope will be successful
- 6. characters who change over the course of the story.
- 7. a character who contrasts with the main character to make us more aware of some important quality of the main character
- 8. a lesson or message; a universal idea characterization everything a writer does to create, reveal, and develop characters
- 9. characters who stay the same over the course of the story.
- 10. characters who are uncomplicated; we know what they do, say, and look like, but we don’t know much about their thoughts.
Down
- 1. a major character in a literary work who opposes the protagonist
- 2. characters who are more complicated; they might have good and bad traits, and they may have conflicting motives.
- 3. characterization is where the author tells you directly what the character is like
- 5. characterization is where the author lets you figure out what the character is like by showing what they say or do