Direct+Characterization

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 * Direct Characterization**:

__Definition__: The writer makes direct statements about a character's personality and tells what the character is like. It literally tells the audience what a character is like.

__Example__: "//Every one in Starkfield knew him and gave him a greeting tempered to his own grave mien; but his taciturnity was respected and it was only on rare occasions that one of the older men of the place detained him for a word.//" [[|Listen to audio]]

//Definition source:// [|Fiction Factor - Direct vs. Indirect Characterization] //Example source:// Wharton, Edith. __Ethan Frome__. New York: New American Library, 2000.