Name
Date
Character Analysis
Period
Character
Close Read: Using your story record the clues that help describe a character’s traits in the table.
Traits (Adjective) Clues (phrase from text, two
for each)
Physical Looks
Says
Thinks
Feels
Does/Acts
Apply: On the outline, create your depiction of the character based from the traits and clues from the text. You must include their physical looks,
one quote that they said, and one item that is important to them.
Analyze: Circle the literary terms that apply to the character below.
Protagonist
Antagonist
Flat Character
Round
Static
Dynamic
Archetype/Stock: Which one?
Analyze: Draw a conclusion about the author’s views of society. On what do you base your conclusions?
Reading Comprehension Check: Pick the best answer for each question.
How long has Miss Strangeworth’s family been living in her town?
A)
One decades
B)
Five decades
C)
More than one hundred years
D)
More than two hundred years
Early in the story, which of the following details foreshadows that
there is something strange about Miss Strangeworth?
A) Miss Strangeworth stops to talk to everyone.
B) Miss Strangeworth thinks the town belongs to her.
C) Miss Strangeworth notices when people are distracted.
Who lives with Miss Strangeworth?
A)
Her grandmother
B)
Her mother
C)
Her daughter
D)
No one
What does Miss Strangeworth write about in her letter to old Mrs.
Foster?
D) Miss Strangeworth is proud of her house and her roses.
Miss Strangeworth’s teasing comment to Helen Crane, “I suppose you’ve
got young Don all upset about the fact that his daughter is already six
months old and hasn’t yet begun to learn to dance?” is an example of—
A) generalization
B) theme
A) Her baby’s disabilities
C) dramatic irony
B) Her upcoming surgery
D) verbal irony
C) The indecency of the Harris boy
D) The store’s strawberries
What event causes Miss Strangeworth’s secret to be revealed to the
town?
A) She stops going to the post office.
B) She drops a letter on the ground.
C) She says something inappropriate to Mrs. Harper.
D) She forgets to buy her tea.
When Miss Strangeworth first sees the green envelope on her own hall
floor, she believes that her secret of having written nasty letters is still
safe, but the reader knows that it is not. This is an example of—
A) dramatic irony
B) theme
C) situational irony
D) hyperbole