Across
- 2. characters who are more complicated; they might have good and bad traits, and they may have conflicting motives.
- 4. To stare with one's mouth open wide in amazement or wonder.
- 5. a major character in a literary work who opposes the protagonist
- 7. gently calm (a person or their feelings)
- 8. characters who are uncomplicated; we know what they do, say, and look like, but we don’t know much about their thoughts.
- 9. a boat or ship for moving passengers and goods
- 11. a character who contrasts with the main character to make us more aware of some important quality of the main character
- 12. Full to the point of overflowing
- 14. a magician; a wizard or sorcerer
- 15. treat (a sacred place or thing) with violent disrespect; violate.
- 17. a person undergoing training for a particular job
- 18. To pour a liquid over; to extinguish a light
- 21. characters who change over the course of the story.
- 22. a soldier stationed to keep guard over a place
Down
- 1. a main character in a literary work that we root for and hope will be successful
- 3. characterization is where the author tells you directly what the character is like
- 6. everything a writer does to create, reveal, and develop characters
- 10. (of a person) placed at a high or powerful level
- 13. characterization is where the author lets you figure out what the character is like by showing what they say or do
- 16. characters who stay the same over the course of the story.
- 19. Feeling resentful of what someone else has; jealous
- 20. To think deeply or focus one's mind for a period of time, usually silently