REVIEW QUESTIONS
1. What combination of traits makes a character worth knowing?
2. Distinguish between the method of allegory and the method of caricature.
3. Imagine a fictitious person; and, after you have become sufficiently acquainted with this imaginary character, write eight distinct themes, in each of which the selfsame figure is projected in accordance with a different method of delineation:––1. By Exposition, 2. By Description, 3. By Psychological Analysis, 4. By Reports from Other Characters, 5. By Speech, 6. By Action, 7. By Effect on Other Characters, and 8. By Environment.
SUGGESTED READING
Bliss Perry: “A Study of Prose Fiction”––Chapter V, on “The Characters.”
Read at greater length those passages of famous fiction from which have been selected the illustrative quotations cited in this chapter.