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Characters' Traits

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Directions: Complete the Practice Exercise 3-1 below. Consult the Answer Key below for answers once you finish. Review the Instruction material which relates to any questions you do not get correct.

Match the description with the correct word.

  1. Deliberate underplaying or undervaluing of a thing to create emphasis or irony.
     
  2. The ways in which the author conveys attitudes about the story material and toward the reader.
     
  3. Flat characters that represent a class or group. Examples: the braggart soldier, the shrewish wife, the hypocritical Puritan, and so forth.
     
  4. Comparison of two unlike things; describing some unlike thing in terms of something understandable to the reader.
     
  5. The essence of plot; the opposition between two forces.
  1. stock character
     
  2. metaphor
     
  3. tone
     
  4. conflict
     
  5. understatement

Answer Key (top) (click HERE for a printer-friendly version)

  1. e
     
  2. c
     
  3. a
     
  4. b
     
  5. d

 

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