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This document discusses various methods for characterizing and analyzing elements in a novel. It describes analyzing a character's physical description, name, and analyzing the setting by identifying when and where the story takes place. It also discusses analyzing the protagonist and antagonist characters, the plot including main events and conflicts, and the narrator's perspective. Additional elements covered include symbols, metaphors, and personification. The document provides references for further information on methods of characterization, analyzing literature, symbols, and plots in novels.
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- 1. NOVEL METHOD OF CHARACTERIZATIONIN A NOVEL
- 2. 1. PhysicalDescription • The most common way of describing a character • Identifies anything physical about the Character in the novel • this could Includes his or her height, skin, hair and eye colour, short/tall, skinny/fat, wear glasses?, how he/she walks/talks and everything about him or her anything physical characteristic that surrender the character
- 3. 2. NameAnalysis • Analysing a character’s name is looking more closely to its meaning (if there is one) and describing it • Not all characters have a name with significance to the story • A lot of times though, authors carefully choose a character’s name to represent something about the character and/or his or her behaviour
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- 5. SETTING When welook at the setting ,we look for certain description that tells the readers about the setting We look for when and where the story was told The place and the time frame and the period Was it the past, present or is it still coming
- 6. Setting WhenDid the story happened ? This include the year or period Present, past or future How do we know ? Where is the story taking place ? The place How do we know? Are the setting relevant to the theme
- 7. Characters Protagonist– the main character whose telling the story and who undergoes complex challenges and overcome them Antagonist – an important character that opposes the main character and maybe the character is a manner character or a dynamic Appearance and personalities and characteristics of the characters, how the character appears Can you connect it to the theme?
- 8. Plot Beable to read the story and get an understanding What the story is about. The main events that are happening in the story . The rising events The climax ,where the conflict might be in high and solutions are needed to calm down the situation Can you see a connection to the theme?
- 9. Narrator The“person” whom is telling the story. Could be a character in the novel or someone from the outside. First, could be identified by ( “I", We, me) second could be identified by (“YOU”) or third person narrator could be seen by “him or her or they” Omniscient narrator – all-knowing
- 10. SYMBOLS IN ANOVEL A symbol is a simple thing or sign that can be recognised by everybody. However, not only in literature, a symbol always bares a deeper meaning or a big idea. It could prove a literal meaning into a figurative meaning in the story
- 11. An imageis supposed to appeal to the reader‘s imagination. It is intended to bring a new feeling or perception to an object
- 12. A metaphorlinks seemingly unlike things with one another in the form of an implicit comparison. Comparison between two things and compare it with another that maybe is not the same A simile links two distinctly different things with one another in the form of an explicit comparison through the words like or as.
- 13. Personification Hereyou characters the human nature to non human nature and give it to human characteristic E.g. the cow can give birth to a human being This is personification because the cow could not give birth to a babe .
- 14. REFERENCE LIST • Joeper,K.(2012) Symbol I a novel. Available from slide share at https://www.slideshare.net/symbol in a novel for-slide share(accessed 28/08/2018) • Joepel ,K.(2012)Plot in a novel .Available from slide share at https://www.slideshare.net/plot-for-slideshare(accessed 28/08/2018) • Zly,B(2014)Method of characterization. Available from slide share at https://www.slideshare.net/method of characterization-for slide share(accessed 30/08/2018) • Sjolund,S.(2015)Analyzing a literature. Available from slide share at https://www.slideshare.net/Analysing literature for-slide share(accessed 30/08/2018)