AP today

1. AP today Vocab 1 quiz Analyzing Character

2. Vocab 1 quiz Put your name, first and last, on bubble sheet and subject = V1 0r vocab 1 Work quickly – 10 minutes Put bubble sheet upside down on front table along with quiz (2 piles) Take out excerpt from Pride and Prejudice and your WTJs. Reread and annotate new things you notice about how Austen characterizes Mr. Darcy.

3. Analyzing Character

4. Character, Plot & Conflict • Character and plot go hand in hand because the conflict that structures a plot usually arises between two or more characters • Internal or external conflict

5. Basic Terms: • Characterization:The method used by a writer to develop a character • Direct characterization: The author tells what the characters are like. • Indirect characterization: The author shows, rather than tells, what a character is like through • External details, such as dress, bearing, looks • A character’s thoughts, deeds, speech • What characters say about one another

6. Related Terms continued • Staticcharacters remain the same throughout the work • Dynamiccharacters change in some way, typically growing in understanding • Foil: a character who, by contrast, points up the qualities or characteristics of another character – has parallel situation, position, and/or conflict • Epiphany: the climax of this growth, a sudden revelation of truth experienced by a character • Stock characters: Familiar types repeated in literature to become the stock in trade of a particular genre, like the strong, silent hero of the western or the hard-boiled hero of the detective story. • Bildungsroman – chronicles of how a young character grows from innocence to experience; a novel whose subject is the moral, psychological, and intellectual development of a usually youthful protagonist

7. Cool new term to use in literary discussion – use it in your essays if you dare…….. verisimilitude The quality of appearing to be true or real. Adjective = verisimilar

8. Keep in mind… • The conflicts created through the plot directly affect character development. • In your analysis – remember this rule:

9. Plot supports analysis; it does not constitute analysis.

10. from Pride and Prejudice • Jane Austen (1775-1817) • English novelist of romantic fictions (with social commentary and satirical flavor)

11. As we reread, annotate anything new that you notice. Consider this question as we go: • How does Austin use literary devices to characterize Mr. Darcy? • Discuss.

12. WTJ: Characterization: P & P • Write a thesis statement in response to the prompt: • How does Austin use literary devices to characterize Mr. Darcy? • What NOT to write: Jane Austen uses various literary devices to characterize Mr. Darcy. (barf – says NOTHING!)

13. Instead write something more like this: Austen characterizes Mr. Darcy as a man who___(is, does, thinks, acts, behaves, …..)______________ but who also ______________. This kind of thesis expresses your analysis of the character and your understanding of the complexity of the character.

14. Character analysis essay You may add a second sentence if you wish to specify in your introduction which literary elements you wish to address, but….. You would do better to organize the essay with topic sentences that reinforce your ideas from your thesis, then show HOW the author uses the literary devices working together to characterize the subject.