Assignment 3.2: Personal Identity

4. Direct and Indirect Characterization

• Direct Characterization tells the audience what the personality of the character is. For example: “The patient boy and quiet girl were both well-mannered and did not disobey their mother.” The author is directly telling the audience the personality of these two children. The boy is “patient” and the girl is “quiet.”

• Indirect Characterization shows things that reveal the personality of a character. There are five different methods of indirect characterization summarized by the acronym STEAL.