ENGL 1050 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Externals
6 Feb 2017
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Foil character: provides a distinct and meaningful contrast to the character, often to protagonist, that helps "see" something about them. May be on the other side of the conflict. Round: three dimensional character, complex, multiple dimensions to them, hard to sum up. Flat: two dimensional character, relatively uninteresting, or unchanging, may not have names. Dynamic: shows change or growth, movement, may be quite different by the end of the story, compared to the beginning. Static: no change, stay the same, provides contrast. Characterization: process of telling reader what kind of person they are, different methods. Speech (first person narrator - vocabulary, tone of voice, etc. ) Exposition (could straight up tell us, description, back story) Dialogue (how they react to what other people say) Information about their thoughts, feelings, everything inside (such as emotions: externals. Stubborn: continuously tries to get the money from tanner. Individual codes: felt guilty when the wrong man was killer, but nobody else cared.
