CHARACTERISATION

Indirect Characterisation: the reader must interpret the personality of the character through the characters' appearance, actions, speech, thoughts, feelings and the way characters interact (STEAL)

Evaluative Language to express attitudes

  1. Affect: character's feelings are revealed

Direct Characterisation: narrator uses evaluative language to directly tell the audience what the personality of the character is.

  1. Judgement: judging the characters behaviour
  1. Appreciation: evaluating the characters appearance

Positive Affect: She enjoyed it, but it ended too soon. Negative Affect: "I'm bored," she said.

Three types: 1) Reaction 2) Composition 3)Valuation and can b positive or negative.

Grammar to express Affect:

Noun: despair, pain, loss, happiness, love, affection

Adjective: bored, agonising, angry, ecstatic,

Adverb: cheerfully, sorrowful

Verb: enjoy, hate

Can be positive or negative and expressed by noun, verb, adjective

STEAL

Speech: what does the character say? How does the character speak?

Thoughts: what is revealed through the character’s private thought s and feelings?

Effect on others: what is revealed through the characters affect on other people? How other characters feel or behave in reaction to the character?

Actions: What does the character do and how do they behave?

Looks: what does the character look like? How does the characters dress?