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Chapter 5
Character
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Literature
Undergraduate 2
09/02/2013

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What function does character development support?
Definition
To discover people and how they interact with the world around them.
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Character
Definition
is used to mean a person, or in the case of children's literature, sometimes a personified animal or object.
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Character development
Definition
means showing the character, whether a person, animal, or object, with the complexity of a living being.
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What is the relationship between the center of the conflict and the role of the character?
Definition
The more a character comes to the center of the conflict, the more important the character is.
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What is the relationship between plot and character?
Definition
An author shows characters by means of actions and speech so that character, incident, and outcome seem interwoven.
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Dynamic character
Definition
a character that undergoes development and changes over the course of the plot.
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Round character
Definition
is one that we know well and who has a variety of traits that make him or her believable.
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Flat character
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is less developed and has fewer traits, but helps by showing how the central character behaves or relates to others.
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Static character
Definition
does not change over the course of the plot.
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Stereotype
Definition
when a character seems to have just a few of the traits associated with a class or of a group of people.
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What is the relationship between flat characters and the plot?
Definition
Flat characters and stereotypes move over the surface of the action, rather than being integrated with the action.
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Protagonist
Definition
central character.
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