character

He made the character believable.

Apparently he modeled the character of Lucie Manette on Nelly.

Another character, a talking fish, tries to warn the children that they'll be blamed for the cat's crazy antics.

But in our intro class, you are reviewing the basics, like plots, setting and character and getting your first real exposure to different literary styles.

In a content analysis of Canadian television, the author Stephen Kline observed that nearly all commercials for character toys featured fantasy play.

We base them, consciously or unconsciously, we base them on real people, or we blend several people’s traits, their attributes into one character.

As you create fictional characters, you’ll almost always combine characteristics from several different people on your list to form the identity and personality of just one character.

Keeping this kind of character sketch can help you solidify your character’s personality, so that it remains consistent throughout your story.

While writing character sketches, do think about details.

Remember the reader needs to know how your character is different from other people who might fall in the same category.

Maybe your character loves the mountains and has lived in a remote area for years.

A round character is fully developed; a flat character isn’t.

Character development is fairly limited.

The flat character tends to serve mainly as a motivating factor.

For instance, you introduce a flat character who has experienced some sort of defeat.

And then your round, your main character who loves success and loves to show off, comes and boasts about succeeding and jokes about the flat character’s defeat in front of others, humiliates the other guy.

The flat character is introduced solely for the purpose of allowing the round character to show off.

One way of doing that is to come up with what’s called “a character sketch”, I don’t mean a sketch like a drawing, I guess that’s obvious.

So more energy can be put into other elements of the story like character and setting.

And the characters are believable, too.

Characters in the events were described without the narrator passing much judgment on them or anything or being too dramatic.

And Twain’s style, he goes back to what I said earlier, verisimilitude, the realistic way characters act and talk.

Scholars have detected some 6,000 separate hieroglyphic characters in use over the history of Egyptian writing, but it appears that never more than a thousand were in use during any one period.

And Hugo writes about this arrival of the Romantics, these wild and bizarre characters and their outlandish customs, which stupefied and infuriated the more conventional theater-goers.

Characters might make jokes and get into silly situations, but they're still regular people, like not in disguise or anything.

Many of Shakespeare's plays, even the tragedies, contain scenes with ridiculous, outlandish characters like clowns,

Well, Alberti needed characters, right?

Now, in addition to characters, the setting is extremely important, especially when attempting to tell a story realistically.

And then news of the event would be reported by one of the characters. Diane?

Yes, the ancient Greek chorus did most definitely sing and dance like choruses do today, but the chorus's most important role was commenting on what the characters on stage were doing and thinking.

Geisel also illustrated his own books and created a lot of highly memorable characters from a visual standpoint.

For his human characters, he pretty much drew the same face over and over.

And the way he drew even nonhuman characters was dismissed by many critics as being overly simplistic.

They are often about real people, so you can identify with the characters, and that’s what engages us in them.

The particular stories might not be true and some of the characters or events might be made up.

One is animal stories, where animals are the main characters.

And it has stock characters like a prince, and a poor but beautiful peasant girl, she is the heroine I mentioned.

So no more than two characters are involved in any one scene.

The characters still act like ... they resemble real people.

Researcher Charles Atkin found that children believe that the characters used to advertise breakfast cereals are knowledgeable about cereals, and children accept such characters as credible sources of nutritional information.

The French said you really cannot talk about real people who lived in opera and they relied on mythology to give them their characters and their plots, mythology, the past old traditions, the novels of chivalry or the epics of chivalry out of the middle Ages.

After we have the background information, we need a key moment that gets things moving, that really makes the audience interested in what happens to the characters we just heard about.

Minor characters are sometimes called, well, just the opposite, “flat”.

Individuality is a valued and inherent part of the British character.

I didn't know Ron had that much strength of character.

In some cases, the physical division within the first cities reflected the strict hierarchical character of the society as a whole, with a royal palace surrounded by an imposing wall and separate from the remainder of the urban population.

She believed in capturing the whole person, not just what was on the surface, that’s where the expressionists’ distortion is important, in an attempt to reveal the subjects’ character or personality.

The reverse process brought young men to Britain, where many continued to live after their 20 to 25 years of service, and this added to the cosmopolitan Roman character of the frontier population.

As among tribes people, personal relationships and a careful weighing of character have always been crucial in a mercantile economy with little regulation, where one's word is one's bond and where informal ties of trust cement together an international trade network.

If you know a lot about a person’s character, it’s easy to predict how they’ll behave.

Of all the visual arts, architecture affects our lives most directly for it determines the character of the human environment in major ways.

She showed real character in her attempts to win over the crowd.

How would you character such a rich and complex personality?