Definitions
character
- people in a fictional text
- presented through their actions, speech, thoughts and by description
characterization
- the way in which the author presents his or her characters
explicit characterization
- if the reader is directly told about the character’s personality
implicit characterization
- if the reader is expected to draw conclusions about a character
Author
- writer of a story
narrator
- the person who tells the story
First-person narrator
- narrator is a person in the story and refers to himself as “I”
Point of view
- perspective of the narrator
limited point of view
- narrator isn’t all knowing
