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
- Affect: character's feelings are revealed
Direct Characterisation: narrator uses evaluative language to directly tell the audience what the personality of the character is.
- Judgement: judging the characters behaviour
- 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?